Andy Summers quotes

Andy Summers is an English musician and guitarist, best known as a member of the rock band The Police. His innovative guitar playing contributed significantly to the band's distinctive sound and global success. He is also recognized for his solo work, collaborations, and contributions to film music and photography. Here are 30 of his quotes:

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

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

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

Andy Summers

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

Andy Summers

I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.

Andy Summers

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

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

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

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

Andy Summers

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

Andy Summers

It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band.

Andy Summers

I think rock records tend to be very expensive.

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

Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.

Andy Summers

I would like to play with electronic keyboards again.

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

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

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

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

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

Andy Summers