Andy Summers
Andy Summers
Andrew James "Andy" Summersis an English musician. Best known as the guitarist for the rock band The Police, he has also recorded twelve solo albums, collaborated with many other artists, toured extensively under his own name, published several books, and composed several film scores. He currently lives in Santa Monica, California...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth31 December 1942
develop gotten needs
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.
band bring guitar playing rock songs unusual
Essentially we were a rock band playing rock songs but I was able to bring in some much more unusual guitar stylings as had been previously heard.
acoustic changes fantastic half head playing shows year
I've also just come off a year and a half playing acoustic shows which is fantastic for the hands, and changes your head a little bit.
band classical played police studied time ultimately
Then ultimately I was in a band called The Police by which time I played a lot of classical guitar, studied classic music, played jazz, rock.
want planets make-sense
You don't want to be so far off the planet that you come out with something that doesn't make sense to anybody.
two car people
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.
rooms roaring quiet
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.
kings stupid rocks
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.
couple guitar play
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.
years buying albums
If you're 20 years old, you've grown up without buying albums.
band stage
I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.
guitar should synthesizers
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.
guy needs band
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.
college guitar periods
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.