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It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.

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Andy Summers
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 31
Composer
Guitarist
Jazz Guitarist
Jazz Musician
Photographer
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I actually think I play better now than Ive ever played.
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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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It's exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting.
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If you're 20 years old, you've grown up without buying albums.
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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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I think rock records tend to be very expensive.
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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 was totally into jazz in my teens.
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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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My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.
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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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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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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 I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.
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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 would like to play with electronic keyboards again.
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For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
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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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The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
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Start with the titles, and then build the music that goes with them.
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