Occupation: Guitarist Birth: December 31, 1942
I actually think I play better now than Ive ever played..
Usually, the best thing is when the band goes to the bar and gets the corner table, we sit there like kings, and then they bring people to us. It's j….
Ive also just come off a year and a half playing acoustic shows which is fantastic for the hands, and changes your head a little bit..
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….
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 ….
Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they've ever been in terms of what I can do..
Start with the titles, and then build the music that goes with them..
My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient..
It's exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting..
Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too..
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 mos….
Im 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 someon….
It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards..
What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe..
The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar..
It is not very practical in today’s world when you tour all over the place having a big band..
The thing about photography is, some people surround themselves with extremely strong subject matter. And unless you're a moron, you're going to get ….
There is always the working out of things, and you have to have sort of a gut response to it. And an intellectual response. And an aesthetic response….
I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work..
If you're 20 years old, you've grown up without buying albums..
Sometimes, literally within a few minutes, you'd be off this amazing roaring scene and back at your hotel room, staring at the patten of the wallpape….