77 Quotes by Andy Summers

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

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

I’m just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music – I don’t want to do generic jazz or fusion.

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

For me, a great show is when there’s a great rapport with the band and the audience, and we’re all really into it. The first trick is to bring the audience into the band, break the ice, have a life, and be one, so you can enjoy the next hour and a half together.

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.

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

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

Sometimes, literally within a few minutes, you’d be off this amazing roaring scene and back at your hotel room, staring at the patten of the wallpaper. It’s very surreal. You’re back in your room, and it’s dead quiet and really weird.