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

Andy Summers

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Andy Summers
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 31
Composer
Guitarist
Jazz Guitarist
Jazz Musician
Photographer
Past
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Avoid
Forward
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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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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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More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
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I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.
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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 think rock records tend to be very expensive.
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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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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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For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
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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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Aping what you've already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.
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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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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'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 would like to play with electronic keyboards again.
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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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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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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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It's exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting.
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