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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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Andy Summers
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 31
Composer
Guitarist
Jazz Guitarist
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Photographer
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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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I actually think I play better now than Ive ever played.
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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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What you aim for, in the first place, is to be as good as you can possibly be. This is what I do, and I'm going to try to be the best in the world.
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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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I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.
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I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.
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More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
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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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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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