Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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For me, a great show is when there's a great rapport with the band and the audience, and we're all really into it. The first trick is to bring the audience into the band, break the ice, have a life, and be one, so you can enjoy the next hour and a half together.

Andy Summers's Popular Quotes

Start with the titles, and then build the music that goes with them.

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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…

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You're on the stage and you've got all those people yelling at you, so you better be right in the moment, reacting to that. It's completely live and …

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You don't want to be so far off the planet that you come out with something that doesn't make sense to anybody.

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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…

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

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It's exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting.

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Commercial record has never interested me. It's amazing I was in a band like The Police that had such phenomenal commercial success. Part of what mad…

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My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.

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