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Andy Summers
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 31
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Jazz Guitarist
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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 most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
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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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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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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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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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Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.
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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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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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If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.
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I was totally into jazz in my teens.
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I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.
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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 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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My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.
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Aping what you've already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.
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It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.
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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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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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