Quotes by Andy Summers

Andy Summers

Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they’ve ever been in terms of what I can do.

Hands

Shapes

Thinking

Aping what you’ve already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.

Done

Funny

Inspiring

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!

Moving

Running

Song

Commercial record has never interested me. It’s amazing I was in a band like The Police that had such phenomenal commercial success. Part of what made The Police what it was was that we didn’t all come in with obvious mainstream musical tastes. We were a rock band and somehow we had to make rock music, but it was informed by a lot of things outside of the mainstream for sure.

Musical

Police

Rock Music

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

Guitar

Synthesizers

Writing

I admire photographers who can take much more ordinarily subject matter and make it transcend that ordinariness, so that it becomes something else fresh and new. It opens this doorway. I really admire people who can do that with photography.

Doorways

People

Photography

I always have a guitar with me. Actually, I’ve got several, I play every day. And I enjoy it. I’m never very far away from them. I swear I only ever get a couple days when I’m away from a guitar, and I never like it! There’s always one close by, and I play every day. Or I’ll be working on something in the studio and play around a bit. It’s an extension of me, really.

Couple

Guitar

Play

I don’t go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.

Band

Stage

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

Nostalgia

Past

I don’t like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

Cutting

My Own

Standards

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Acoustics

Albums

Ambient

Band

Car

College

Couple

Cutting

Done

Doorways

Exciting

Funny

Guitar

Guy

Hands

Hard

Hot

Important

Inspiring

Jazz

Keyboards

Language

Levels

Make Sense

Moving

Musical

My Favorite

My Own

Needs

Nostalgia

Obvious Things

Paint

Past

People

Periods

Photography

Planets

Play

Police

Prime

Quiet

Records

Roaring

Rock Music

Rocks

Rooms

Running

Shapes

Should

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Quotes by Andy Summers

Andy Summers

Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they’ve ever been in terms of what I can do.

Aping what you’ve already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.

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

I admire photographers who can take much more ordinarily subject matter and make it transcend that ordinariness, so that it becomes something else fresh and new. It opens this doorway. I really admire people who can do that with photography.

I don’t go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.

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

I don’t like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

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