Andy Summers

I don't have a great nostalgia for the past. ”

It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward. ”

It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band. ”

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. ”

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. ”

If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet. ”

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

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

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger. ”

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. ”