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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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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 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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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 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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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.
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My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.
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Ive also just come off a year and a half playing acoustic shows which is fantastic for the hands, and changes your head a little bit.
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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 think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.
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For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
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I think rock records tend to be very expensive.
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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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If you're 20 years old, you've grown up without buying albums.
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Start with the titles, and then build the music that goes with them.
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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 actually think I play better now than Ive ever played.
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I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.
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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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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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