Andy Summers Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the english musician Andy Summers on topics like guitar, play, playing

  • 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 on crossing
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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 on avoid
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  • I think rock records tend to be very expensive.

    — Andy Summers on expensive
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  • It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.

    — Andy Summers on avoid
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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 on arena
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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 on bit
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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 on classical
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  • I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.

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

    — Andy Summers on albums
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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 on created
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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 on establishing
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  • About Andy Summers

    Name Andy Summers
    Quotes 29 quotations
    Nationality English
    Profession Musician
    Birthday October 16
    Top topics guitar, play, playing, sound, record
  • It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

    — Andy Summers on compete
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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 on band
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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 on hands
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  • My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.

    — Andy Summers on ambient
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  • I was totally into jazz in my teens.

    — Andy Summers on jazz
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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 on finger
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  • I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.

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

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

    — Andy Summers on cutting
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  • I actually think I play better now than I've ever played.

    — Andy Summers on play
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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 on characteristic
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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 on feel
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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 on anymore
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  • For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.

    — Andy Summers on guitar
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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 on guitar
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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 on guitar
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  • I would like to play with electronic keyboards again.

    — Andy Summers on electronic
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  • Related Topics

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    • downstairs
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    • painter
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    • record
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    • studio
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    • avoid
    • fusion
    • generic
    • jazz
    • kind
    • music
    • sort
    • expensive
    • records
    • rock
    • tend
    • forward
    • hard
    • past
    • arena
    • freedom
    • open
    • police
    • provide
    • situation
    • trio
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