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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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Coming from the era of vinyl you could argue that everything went wrong in the music business the moment we went digital. The day the first CD came out, it all went downhill in the music industry. Digital destroyed everything.
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Ive also just come off a year and a half playing acoustic shows which is fantastic for the hands, and changes your head a little bit.
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My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.
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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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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 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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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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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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The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
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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 was totally into jazz in my teens.
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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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In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.
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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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It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
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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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For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
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More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
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If you're 20 years old, you've grown up without buying albums.
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