77 Quotes by Andy Summers

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

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

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

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

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

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.

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.

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.

You don't want to be so far off the planet that you come out with something that doesn't make sense to anybody.