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I actually think I play better now than Ive ever played.

Andy Summers

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Andy Summers
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 31
Composer
Guitarist
Jazz Guitarist
Jazz Musician
Photographer
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It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
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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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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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I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.
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If you're 20 years old, you've grown up without buying albums.
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More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
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For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
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I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.
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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 am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.
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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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I admire photographers who can take much more ordinarily subject matter and make it transcend that ordinariness, so that it becomes something else fresh and new. It opens this doorway. I really admire people who can do that with photography.
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To go see a band in a big venue is a difficult experience. I don't really like that too much. I'm not a guy who puts on iTunes and goes, Oh, what's hot! I don't need to.
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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 exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting.
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I was totally into jazz in my teens.
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What you aim for, in the first place, is to be as good as you can possibly be. This is what I do, and I'm going to try to be the best in the world.
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I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.
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Start with the titles, and then build the music that goes with them.
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It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.
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