Andy Summers quotes

My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient. (Andy Summers)
I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either. View quote
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I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work. View quote
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It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward. View quote
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I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster. View quote
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For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards. View quote
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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. (Andy Summers)
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. View quote
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More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp. View quote
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I was totally into jazz in my teens. View quote
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It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band. View quote
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I think rock records tend to be very expensive. View quote
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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. View quote
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Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too. View quote
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I would like to play with electronic keyboards again. View quote
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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. View quote
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I actually think I play better now than I've ever played. (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. View quote
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I'm 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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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