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If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet.
Andy Summers
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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
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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
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I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.
Andy Summers
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It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
Andy Summers
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I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.
Andy Summers
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I actually think I play better now than I've ever played.
Andy Summers
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The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
Andy Summers
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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
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I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.
Andy Summers
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Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.
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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