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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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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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Start with the titles, and then build the music that goes with them.
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If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.
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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 rock records tend to be very expensive.
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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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Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.
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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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It's exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting.
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I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.
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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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It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.
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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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For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
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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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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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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 was totally into jazz in my teens.
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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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The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
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