Quotes by Andy Summers

About Andy Summers:

Andrew James "Andy" Summers is an English musician, born in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire. Best known as the guitarist for the rock band The Police, he has also recorded twelve solo albums, collaborated with many other artists, toured extensively under his own name, published several books, and composed several film scores.
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Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they've ever been in terms of what I can do.

Andy Summers

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

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

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

Andy Summers

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

Andy Summers

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

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'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

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

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

Andy Summers

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

I actually think I play better now than I've ever played.

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

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

Andy Summers

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

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

Andy Summers

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

Andy Summers

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

Andy Summers

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

Andy Summers

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

Andy Summers

Author Bio

  • NameAndy Summers
  • DescriptionBritish guitarist
  • BornDecember 31, 1942
  • CountryEngland
  • ProfessionGuitarist; Composer; Jazz Musician