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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
Composer
Guitarist
Jazz Guitarist
Jazz Musician
Photographer
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I was totally into jazz in my teens.
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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.
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I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.
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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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The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
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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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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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I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.
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It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
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I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.
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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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If you're 20 years old, you've grown up without buying albums.
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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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It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.
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The thing about photography is, some people surround themselves with extremely strong subject matter. And unless you're a moron, you're going to get a really strong photograph.
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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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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 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.
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