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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.

Andy Summers

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Andy Summers
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 31
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Jazz Guitarist
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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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More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
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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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Aping what you've already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.
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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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I was totally into jazz in my teens.
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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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As an artist, I move along in my life, into whatever things I'm doing, and I hear things where it's like, Oh, that'd be a great [song] title! I'll use that! So I keep a running list of titles on my computer. I've got these words and phrases that just sustained my interest. So I'm a step ahead, really, with the titling!
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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 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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I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.
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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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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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In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.
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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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'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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It's exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting.
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I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.
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I think rock records tend to be very expensive.
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I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.
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