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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.

Andy Summers

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Andy Summers
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 31
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Start with the titles, and then build the music that goes with them.
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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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It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
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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 would like to play with electronic keyboards again.
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I actually think I play better now than Ive ever played.
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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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If you're 20 years old, you've grown up without buying albums.
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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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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 go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.
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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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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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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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'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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Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.
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More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
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To go see a band in a big venue is a difficult experience. I don't really like that too much. I'm not a guy who puts on iTunes and goes, Oh, what's hot! I don't need to.
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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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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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