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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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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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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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The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
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I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.
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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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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 I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.
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Start with the titles, and then build the music that goes with them.
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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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It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.
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My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.
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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 we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.
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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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For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
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I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.
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Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.
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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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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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