Andy Summers Quotes

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

Either, Using, Instrument

Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they've ever been in terms of what I can do.
Andy Summers

Best, Actually, Hands

For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
Andy Summers

Great, Writing, Guitar

I actually think I play better now than I've ever played.
Andy Summers

Play, Actually, Played

I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.
Andy Summers

Music, Forward, Moving

I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.
Andy Summers

Great, Past, Nostalgia

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.
Andy Summers

Work, Playing, Standards

I think rock records tend to be very expensive.
Andy Summers

Rock, Records, Expensive

I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.
Andy Summers

Coming, Era, Faster

I was totally into jazz in my teens.
Andy Summers

Jazz, Teens, Totally

I would like to play with electronic keyboards again.
Andy Summers

Play, Again, Electronic

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

Music, Trying, Avoid

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.
Andy Summers

Playing, Sound, Violin

It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band.
Andy Summers

Today, Big, Place

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
Andy Summers

Hard, Guitar, Serious

It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.
Andy Summers

Forward, Past, Hard

More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
Andy Summers

Two, Guitar, Used

My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.
Andy Summers

High, Favorite, Sounds

Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.
Andy Summers

Important, Writing, Playing

The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
Andy Summers

Guitar, Sound, Obvious

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.
Andy Summers

Rock, Play, Guitar

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

Someone, Play, Language

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

Time, Play, Working

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

Simple, Someone, Else

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

Work, Time, Try

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Nationality: English

Born: December 31, 1942

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