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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 don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.
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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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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 been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
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For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
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More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
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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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The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
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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'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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I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.
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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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I was totally into jazz in my teens.
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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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My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.
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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 think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.
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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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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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