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Andy Summers

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It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.


— Andy Summers


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


— Andy Summers


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More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.


— Andy Summers


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My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.


— Andy Summers


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Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.


— Andy Summers


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The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.


— Andy Summers


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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.


— Andy Summers


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What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.


— Andy Summers


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About Andy Summers

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Did you know about Andy Summers?

In 2008 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Bournemouth University. In 2003 along with his band mates Sting and Stewart Copeland he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 1977 Summers was invited by ex-Gong bassist Mike Howlett to join his band Strontium 90 along with future Police mates Sting and Stewart Copeland.

Best known as the guitarist for rock band The Police he has also recorded twelve solo albums collaborated with many other artists toured extensively under his own name publiAndy Summersd several books and composed several film scores.

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