If you’re a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer — Andy Summers
It’s been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards. — Andy Summers
Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they’ve ever been in terms of what I can do. — Andy Summers
I’m just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music – I don’t want to do generic jazz or fusion. — Andy Summers
I’ve got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like — Andy Summers
If I’m playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger. — Andy Summers
In the police, in a trio situation – which I’ve come back to now – it’s just so wide open — Andy Summers
It is not very practical in today’s world when you tour all over the place having a big band. — Andy Summers
More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with robert fripp. — Andy Summers
Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too. — Andy Summers
What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don’t like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe. — Andy Summers
There was a period when I’d just come out of college where I’d been playing classical guitar and — Andy Summers
The most obvious thing you can’t do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar. — Andy Summers