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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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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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It is not very practical in today’s world when you tour all over the place having a big band.
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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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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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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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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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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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I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.
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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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It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
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If you're 20 years old, you've grown up without buying albums.
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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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The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
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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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What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.
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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 like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.
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My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.
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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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You come off of this screaming audience of many, many thousands of people. I used to find it very weird. You have two choices. Either you can stay and pump flesh with hundreds of people after the show, which really gets old, or you can come off stage, get into the car, and go straight out the back and away, back to the hotel.
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