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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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"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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"Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it."

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"Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes."

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"I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do."

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"I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound."

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"In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm."

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"This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous."

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"I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound."

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"I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I used animal sounds - as you say, the coyote sound - so the sound of the animal became the main theme of the movie."

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"I don't think you can contrive any sound."

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"I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it."

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

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"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."

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

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"I actually think I play better now than I've ever played."

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"I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work."

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"For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument."

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"I would like to play with electronic keyboards again."

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"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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"If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger."

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

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