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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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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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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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It's exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting.
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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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More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
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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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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 actually think I play better now than Ive ever played.
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It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.
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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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'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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I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.
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For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
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I would like to play with electronic keyboards again.
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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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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 think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.
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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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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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Start with the titles, and then build the music that goes with them.
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