Andy Summers Quotes
- 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…
- 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…
- I was totally into jazz in my teens.
- Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they've ever been in terms of what I can do.
- For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
- I actually think I play better now than Ive ever played.
- 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…
- 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…
- I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.
- It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
- If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.
- The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
- It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band.
- What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.
- Aping what you've already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.
- 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 think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.
- I would like to play with electronic keyboards again.
- I think rock records tend to be very expensive.
- I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.