Words matter. These are the best Andy Summers Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.
Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they’ve ever been in terms of what I can do.
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.
It’s been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
It is not very practical in today’s world when you tour all over the place having a big band.
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.
If I’m playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.
It’s hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.
I think rock records tend to be very expensive.
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.
I actually think I play better now than I’ve ever played.
More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
I don’t have a great nostalgia for the past.
