Andy Summers Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Andy Summers Quotes and Sayings


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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. Andy Summers | Refcard PDF
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    For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument. Andy Summers | Refcard PDF
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    I actually think I play better now than I've ever played. Andy Summers | Refcard PDF
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    I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music. Andy Summers | Refcard PDF
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    I don't have a great nostalgia for the past. Andy Summers | Refcard PDF
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    I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work. Andy Summers | Refcard PDF
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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. Andy Summers | Refcard PDF
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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. Andy Summers | Refcard PDF
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    I think rock records tend to be very expensive. Andy Summers | Refcard PDF
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    I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster. Andy Summers | Refcard PDF
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    I was totally into jazz in my teens. Andy Summers | Refcard PDF
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    I would like to play with electronic keyboards again. Andy Summers | Refcard PDF
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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. Andy Summers | Refcard PDF
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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. Andy Summers | Refcard PDF
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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. Andy Summers | Refcard PDF
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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. Andy Summers | Refcard PDF
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    If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet. Andy Summers | Refcard PDF
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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. Andy Summers | Refcard PDF
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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. Andy Summers | Refcard PDF
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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. Andy Summers | Refcard PDF
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    It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band. Andy Summers | Refcard PDF
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    It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards. Andy Summers | Refcard PDF
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    It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward. Andy Summers | Refcard PDF
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    More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp. Andy Summers | Refcard PDF
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    My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient. Andy Summers | Refcard PDF
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    Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too. Andy Summers | Refcard PDF
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    The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar. Andy Summers | Refcard PDF
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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. Andy Summers | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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