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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.

Andy Summers

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Andy Summers
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 31
Composer
Guitarist
Jazz Guitarist
Jazz Musician
Photographer
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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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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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My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.
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I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.
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It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.
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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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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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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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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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Aping what you've already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.
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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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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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If you're 20 years old, you've grown up without buying albums.
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I actually think I play better now than Ive ever played.
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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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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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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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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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I would like to play with electronic keyboards again.
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