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I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

Andy Summers

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Andy Summers
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 31
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You don't want to be so far off the planet that you come out with something that doesn't make sense to anybody.
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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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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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It's exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting.
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I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.
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I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.
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What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.
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Aping what you've already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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If you're 20 years old, you've grown up without buying albums.
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As an artist, I move along in my life, into whatever things I'm doing, and I hear things where it's like, Oh, that'd be a great [song] title! I'll use that! So I keep a running list of titles on my computer. I've got these words and phrases that just sustained my interest. So I'm a step ahead, really, with the titling!
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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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More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
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