Andy Summers famous 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

#Guitar #Should #Synthesizers

Aping what you've already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.
-- Andy Summers

#Funny #Inspiring #Done

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

#College #Guitar #Periods

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

#Thinking #People #Records

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

#Play #Keyboards

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

#Thinking #Rocks #Records

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

#Cutting #Standards #Cutting Edge

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

#Play #Levels #Language

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

#Trying #Fusion #Want

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

#Past

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

#Guitar #Two #Albums

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

#Sound #My Favorite #Ambient

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

#Writing #Important #Prime

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

#Play #Records #Paint

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

#Thinking #Rocks #Guitar

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

#Today #Band #World

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

#Moving #Moving Forward #I Am Pretty

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

#Play #Police #Doe

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

#Guitar #Police #Trying

I was totally into jazz in my teens.
-- Andy Summers

#Teens #Jazz

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

#Thinking #Hands #Shapes

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

#Writing #Guitar #Synthesizers

I actually think I play better now than Ive ever played.
-- Andy Summers

#Thinking #Play

Ive also just come off a year and a half playing acoustic shows which is fantastic for the hands, and changes your head a little bit.
-- Andy Summers

#Hands #Years #Half

Im 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 #Hands #Sound

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

#Past #Nostalgia

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

#Guitar #Competition #Keyboards

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

#Sound #Violin #Way

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

#Guitar #Sound #Corny

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

#Years #Play #Band