Andy Summers Quotes (33 Quotes)
- I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.
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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.
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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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- It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.
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- Essentially we were a rock band playing rock songs but I was able to bring in some much more unusual guitar stylings as had been previously heard.
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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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- For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
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- If you can get through it in a live performance you feel comfortable because it pushes you on. It helps you grow and that is what it is all about.
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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.
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- I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.
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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.
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- I actually think I play better now than I've ever played.
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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.
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- It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
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- My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.
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