Andy Summers Quotes
Enjoy the top 46 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Andy Summers.
I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.
— Andy Summers
If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.
— 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 don't have a great nostalgia for the past.”
— Andy Summers
“I actually think I play better now than I've ever played.”
— Andy Summers
“I would like to play with electronic keyboards again.”
— Andy Summers
It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
— Andy Summers
For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
— Andy Summers
“I think rock records tend to be very expensive.”
— Andy Summers
I was totally into jazz in my teens.
— Andy Summers
— Andy Summers
“It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band.”
— Andy Summers
“It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.”
— Andy Summers
“More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.”
— Andy Summers
— Andy Summers
The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
— Andy Summers
“What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.”
— Andy Summers
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
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
“I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.”
— Andy Summers
What you aim for, in the first place, is to be as good as you can possibly be. This is what I do, and I'm going to try to be the best in the world.
— Andy Summers
Usually, the best thing is when the band goes to the bar and gets the corner table, we sit there like kings, and then they bring people to us. It's just rock 'n' roll. It's stupid, really.
— Andy Summers
— Andy Summers
As an artist, I move along in my life, into whatever things I'm doing, and I hear things where it's like, "Oh, that'd be a great [song] title! I'll use that!" So I keep a running list of titles on my computer. I've got these words and phrases that just sustained my interest. So I'm a step ahead, really, with the titling!
— Andy Summers
Start with the titles, and then build the music that goes with them.
— Andy Summers
— Andy Summers
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