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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
Composer
Guitarist
Jazz Guitarist
Jazz Musician
Photographer
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I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.
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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'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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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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I was totally into jazz in my teens.
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If you're 20 years old, you've grown up without buying albums.
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I think rock records tend to be very expensive.
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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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The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
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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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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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For me, a great show is when there's a great rapport with the band and the audience, and we're all really into it. The first trick is to bring the audience into the band, break the ice, have a life, and be one, so you can enjoy the next hour and a half together.
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I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.
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I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.
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For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
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