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
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.
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.
thinking play rocks
What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.
play police arena
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.
play keyboards
I would like to play with electronic keyboards again.
play records paint
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.
play levels language
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.
thinking play better-now
I actually think I play better now than Ive ever played.
years play band
It accumulates over the years and I've led so many bands of my own now and forced myself into new situations... You would hope that you play better and better - until you just get too feeble to do it anymore.
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.
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.