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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.

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Andy Summers
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 31
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What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.
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It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.
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I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.
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You don't want to be so far off the planet that you come out with something that doesn't make sense to anybody.
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