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Andy Summers
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 31
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More quotes by Andy Summers
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.
Andy Summers
I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.
Andy Summers
It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.
Andy Summers
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.
Andy Summers
It is not very practical in today’s world when you tour all over the place having a big band.
Andy Summers
I would like to play with electronic keyboards again.
Andy Summers
More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
Andy Summers
I actually think I play better now than Ive ever played.
Andy Summers
I think rock records tend to be very expensive.
Andy Summers
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.
Andy Summers
I was totally into jazz in my teens.
Andy Summers
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.
Andy Summers
I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.
Andy Summers
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.
Andy Summers
The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
Andy Summers
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.
Andy Summers
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.
Andy Summers
I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.
Andy Summers
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.
Andy Summers
Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.
Andy Summers