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Andy Summers
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 31
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I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.
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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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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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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 we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.
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I was totally into jazz in my teens.
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My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.
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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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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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Aping what you've already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.
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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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For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
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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'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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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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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 is not very practical in today’s world when you tour all over the place having a big band.
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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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