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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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It accumulates over the years and I've led so many bands of my own now and forced myself into new situations... You would hope that you play better and better - until you just get too feeble to do it anymore.
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I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.
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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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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 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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Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.
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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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I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.
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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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I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.
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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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I think rock records tend to be very expensive.
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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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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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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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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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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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I would like to play with electronic keyboards again.
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It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
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