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If you're 20 years old, you've grown up without buying albums.

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Andy Summers
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 31
Composer
Guitarist
Jazz Guitarist
Jazz Musician
Photographer
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Grown
Albums
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It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
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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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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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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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I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.
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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.
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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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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 would like to play with electronic keyboards again.
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I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.
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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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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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The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
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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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Aping what you've already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.
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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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Start with the titles, and then build the music that goes with them.
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I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.
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I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.
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