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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
Without

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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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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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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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My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.
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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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'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 been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
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I think rock records tend to be very expensive.
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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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The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
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For me, a great show is when there's a great rapport with the band and the audience, and we're all really into it. The first trick is to bring the audience into the band, break the ice, have a life, and be one, so you can enjoy the next hour and a half together.
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I actually think I play better now than Ive ever played.
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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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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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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 think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.
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I was totally into jazz in my teens.
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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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It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.
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