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.
Start with the titles, and then build the music that goes with them. - Andy Summers
Start with the titles, and then build the music that goes with them.
- Andy Summers
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 … - Andy Summers
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 …
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… - Andy Summers
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…
You don't want to be so far off the planet that you come out with something that doesn't make sense to anybody. - Andy Summers
You don't want to be so far off the planet that you come out with something that doesn't make sense to anybody.
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… - Andy Summers
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…
I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work. - Andy Summers
I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.
It's exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting. - Andy Summers
It's exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting.
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… - Andy Summers
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…
My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient. - Andy Summers
My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.
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