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Aping what you've already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.

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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Aping
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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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The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
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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'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 don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.
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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 think rock records tend to be very expensive.
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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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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 am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.
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It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
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My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.
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I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.
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Sometimes, literally within a few minutes, you'd be off this amazing roaring scene and back at your hotel room, staring at the patten of the wallpaper. It's very surreal. You're back in your room, and it's dead quiet and really weird.
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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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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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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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Usually, the best thing is when the band goes to the bar and gets the corner table, we sit there like kings, and then they bring people to us. It's just rock 'n' roll. It's stupid, really.
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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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It's exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting.
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