Andy Summers Quotes
"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
(Related: Music, Jazz, Trying, Want)
"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
(Related: Time, Work, Guitar, Police)
"If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger."
- Andy Summers
(Related: Sound)
"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
(Related: Guitar, Needs, Sound)
"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
(Related: Sound)
"I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music."
- Andy Summers
(Related: Music, Pretty)
"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
(Related: Hope, Now, Play, Years)
"It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band."
- Andy Summers
(Related: Today, World)
"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
"Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they've ever been in terms of what I can do."
- Andy Summers
"I was totally into jazz in my teens."
- Andy Summers
(Related: Jazz)
"I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster."
- Andy Summers
(Related: People, Will)
"I think rock records tend to be very expensive."
- Andy Summers
"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
(Related: Time, Play)
"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
(Related: Language, Play)
"I don't have a great nostalgia for the past."
- Andy Summers
(Related: Nostalgia, Past)
"I actually think I play better now than I've ever played."
- Andy Summers
(Related: Now, Play)
"For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument."
- Andy Summers
(Related: Guitar, Writing)
"I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work."
- Andy Summers
(Related: Work)
"I would like to play with electronic keyboards again."
- Andy Summers
(Related: Play)
"My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient."
- Andy Summers
(Related: Favorite)
"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
(Related: Life, College, Guitar, Rest)
"Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too."
- Andy Summers
(Related: Writing)
"More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp."
- Andy Summers
(Related: Guitar)
"It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward."
- Andy Summers
(Related: Past)
"It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards."
- Andy Summers
(Related: Guitar)
"The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar."
- Andy Summers
(Related: Guitar, Obvious, Sound)
"What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe."
- Andy Summers
(Related: Guitar, Play)