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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
Albums
Without
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Buying
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I think rock records tend to be very expensive.
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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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It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.
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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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The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
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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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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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Start with the titles, and then build the music that goes with them.
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I like to play with someone who can cover a lot of ground and someone with whom you can discuss the language at a reasonable level otherwise it gets a bit frustrating.
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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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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 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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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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My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.
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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 is not very practical in today’s world when you tour all over the place having a big band.
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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 was totally into jazz in my teens.
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I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.
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