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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
Years
Buying
Grown

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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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My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.
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I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.
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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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I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.
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Aping what you've already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.
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I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.
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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's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.
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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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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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