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There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

Andy Summers

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Andy Summers
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 31
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Jazz Guitarist
Jazz Musician
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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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I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.
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I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.
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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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Aping what you've already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.
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I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.
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More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
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You come off of this screaming audience of many, many thousands of people. I used to find it very weird. You have two choices. Either you can stay and pump flesh with hundreds of people after the show, which really gets old, or you can come off stage, get into the car, and go straight out the back and away, back to the hotel.
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Im better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created.
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I actually think I play better now than Ive ever played.
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