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Andy Summers

"I was totally into jazz in my teens."

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Donna Grant

"I was exposed to jazz early on."

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Donna Grant

"I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences."

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Donna Grant

"For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind."

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Donna Grant

"I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense."

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Donna Grant

"The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues."

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Donna Grant

"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."

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Donna Grant

"And I used to listen to a lot of jazz."

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Donna Grant

"The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point."

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Donna Grant

"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."

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Donna Grant

"One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?"

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Andy Summers
"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."

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Andy Summers
"I was totally into jazz in my teens."

Jazz

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

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Andy Summers
"I'm better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created."

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

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

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

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Andy Summers
"I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster."

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Andy Summers
"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."

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Andy Summers
"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."

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