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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
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For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
Andy Summers
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My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.
Andy Summers
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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
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More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
Andy Summers
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It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band.
Andy Summers
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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
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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
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What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.
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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
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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
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If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.
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