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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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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'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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If you're 20 years old, you've grown up without buying albums.
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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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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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It's exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting.
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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 think rock records tend to be very expensive.
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I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.
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For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
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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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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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'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'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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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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Start with the titles, and then build the music that goes with them.
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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 would like to play with electronic keyboards again.
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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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