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To go see a band in a big venue is a difficult experience. I don't really like that too much. I'm not a guy who puts on iTunes and goes, Oh, what's hot! I don't need to.
Andy Summers
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Andy Summers
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 31
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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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'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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I was totally into jazz in my teens.
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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 would like to play with electronic keyboards again.
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I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.
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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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Aping what you've already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.
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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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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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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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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 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 actually think I play better now than Ive ever played.
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It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
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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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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.
Andy Summers
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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