Andy Summers Guitar Quotations

I always have a guitar with me. Actually, I've got several, I play every day. And I enjoy it. I'm never very far away from them. I swear I only ever get a couple days when I'm away from a guitar, and I never like it! There's always one close by, and I play every day. Or I'll be working on something in the studio and play around a bit. It's an extension of me, really.

If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Essentially we were a rock band playing rock songs but I was able to bring in some much more unusual guitar stylings as had been previously heard.