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 a bit frustrating.
Andy SummersComing from the era of vinyl you could argue that everything went wrong in the music business the moment we went digital. The day the first CD came out, it all went downhill in the music industry. Digital destroyed everything.
Andy SummersMore recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
Andy SummersI'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.
Andy SummersCommercial 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 made The Police what it was was that we didn't all come in with obvious mainstream musical tastes. We were a rock band and somehow we had to make rock music, but it was informed by a lot of things outside of the mainstream for sure.
Andy Summers