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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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Andy Summers
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 31
Composer
Guitarist
Jazz Guitarist
Jazz Musician
Photographer
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Exciting
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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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It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.
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I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.
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I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.
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Aping what you've already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.
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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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Im better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created.
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I think rock records tend to be very expensive.
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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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It is not very practical in today’s world when you tour all over the place having a big band.
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More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
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My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.
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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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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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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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I would like to play with electronic keyboards again.
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I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.
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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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I was totally into jazz in my teens.
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Start with the titles, and then build the music that goes with them.
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