Andy Summers

Musician

1942-12-31

Andy Summers is an English guitarist known for his work with the rock band The Police.

Books by Andy Summers

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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.
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The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
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It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
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For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
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More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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