Latest Andy Summers Quotes from Interviews

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• Coming from the era of vinyl you could argue that everything went wrong in the music business the moment we went digital. The day the first CD came out, it all went downhill in the music industry. Digital destroyed everything.

  Andy Summers

  Arguing, Moments, Vinyl

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• Commercial record has never interested me. It's amazing I was in a band like The Police that had such phenomenal commercial success. Part of what made The Police what it was was that we didn't all come in with obvious mainstream musical tastes. We were a rock band and somehow we had to make rock music, but it was informed by a lot of things outside of the mainstream for sure.

  Andy Summers

  Police, Musical, Rock Music

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• There is always the working out of things, and you have to have sort of a gut response to it. And an intellectual response. And an aesthetic response. All that comes from having done this for a long time. Instead of saying, "That's a really good rock track, and that will do," I'm looking for something that is more original and fresh. There are a lot of elements to get into it: a level or sophistication, passion and excitement.

  Andy Summers

  Passion, Long, Track

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• It's exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting.

  Andy Summers

  Exciting

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• 'Triboluminescence' is actually a scientific world meaning striking something and creating light from dark. I thought it was a great word and that is was a very apt metaphor for making music - or any creative act, really. We all start in the dark and have to create light.

  Andy Summers

  Dark, Creative, World

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• To go see a band in a big venue is a difficult experience. I don't really like that too much. I'm not a guy who puts on iTunes and goes, "Oh, what's hot!" I don't need to.

  Andy Summers

  Guy, Hot, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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

  Andy Summers

  Want, Planets, Make Sense

  Source: collider.com

• If you're 20 years old, you've grown up without buying albums.

  Andy Summers

  Years, Albums, Buying

  Source: collider.com

• I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.

  Andy Summers

  Band, Stage

  Source: collider.com

• What you aim for, in the first place, is to be as good as you can possibly be. This is what I do, and I'm going to try to be the best in the world.

  Andy Summers

  Trying, World, Firsts

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• Usually, the best thing is when the band goes to the bar and gets the corner table, we sit there like kings, and then they bring people to us. It's just rock 'n' roll. It's stupid, really.

  Andy Summers

  Kings, Stupid, Rocks

  Source: collider.com

• You come off of this screaming audience of many, many thousands of people. I used to find it very weird. You have two choices. Either you can stay and pump flesh with hundreds of people after the show, which really gets old, or you can come off stage, get into the car, and go straight out the back and away, back to the hotel.

  Andy Summers

  Two, People, Car

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• 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.

  Andy Summers

  Roaring, Rooms, Quiet

  Source: collider.com

• You're on the stage and you've got all those people yelling at you, so you better be right in the moment, reacting to that. It's completely live and organic. Even 20 years later, it's the same thing. You may be even better on your instrument. Hopefully, you are.

  Andy Summers

  Yelling, Years, People

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• 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.

  Andy Summers

  Ice, Together, Band

  Source: collider.com

• As an artist, I move along in my life, into whatever things I'm doing, and I hear things where it's like, "Oh, that'd be a great [song] title! I'll use that!" So I keep a running list of titles on my computer. I've got these words and phrases that just sustained my interest. So I'm a step ahead, really, with the titling!

  Andy Summers

  Running, Song, Moving

• Start with the titles, and then build the music that goes with them.

  Andy Summers

  Titles

• I admire photographers who can take much more ordinarily subject matter and make it transcend that ordinariness, so that it becomes something else fresh and new. It opens this doorway. I really admire people who can do that with photography.

  Andy Summers

  Photography, People, Doorways

• The thing about photography is, some people surround themselves with extremely strong subject matter. And unless you're a moron, you're going to get a really strong photograph.

  Andy Summers

  Photography, Strong, People

• I always have a guitar with me. Actually, I've got several, I play every day. And I enjoy it. I'm never very far away from them. I swear I only ever get a couple days when I'm away from a guitar, and I never like it! There's always one close by, and I play every day. Or I'll be working on something in the studio and play around a bit. It's an extension of me, really.

  Andy Summers

  Couple, Guitar, Play