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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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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 think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.
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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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My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.
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More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
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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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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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I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.
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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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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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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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I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.
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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 am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.
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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 most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
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It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.
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If you're 20 years old, you've grown up without buying albums.
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