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Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they've ever been in terms of what I can do.

Andy Summers

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Andy Summers
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 31
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I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.
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I actually think I play better now than Ive ever played.
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It's exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting.
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As an artist, I move along in my life, into whatever things I'm doing, and I hear things where it's like, Oh, that'd be a great [song] title! I'll use that! So I keep a running list of titles on my computer. I've got these words and phrases that just sustained my interest. So I'm a step ahead, really, with the titling!
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The thing about photography is, some people surround themselves with extremely strong subject matter. And unless you're a moron, you're going to get a really strong photograph.
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I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.
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It is not very practical in today’s world when you tour all over the place having a big band.
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If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.
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I like to play with someone who can cover a lot of ground and someone with whom you can discuss the language at a reasonable level otherwise it gets a bit frustrating.
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It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.
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I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.
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Aping what you've already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.
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If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.
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'Triboluminescence' is actually a scientific world meaning striking something and creating light from dark. I thought it was a great word and that is was a very apt metaphor for making music - or any creative act, really. We all start in the dark and have to create light.
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I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.
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There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.
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It accumulates over the years and I've led so many bands of my own now and forced myself into new situations... You would hope that you play better and better - until you just get too feeble to do it anymore.
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You're on the stage and you've got all those people yelling at you, so you better be right in the moment, reacting to that. It's completely live and organic. Even 20 years later, it's the same thing. You may be even better on your instrument. Hopefully, you are.
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I was totally into jazz in my teens.
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Im better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created.
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