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Andy Summers

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

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

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"James Brown is the reason I play guitar."

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"I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it."

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"I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits."

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"Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock."

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"There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back."

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"It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam."

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"I was a drummer and I played the guitar."

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Amber Hurdle

"So I started to learn guitar right away."

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"Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public."

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Amber Hurdle

"I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making."

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"I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards."
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"I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music."
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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 don't have a great nostalgia for the past."
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"I actually think I play better now than I've ever played."
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"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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"I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work."
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"It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band."
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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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