That Distinctive Andy Summers Guitar Sound

Cris Cohen: Another thing that Bill Evans said -- and which a lot of people have said -- is that you have one of the most distinctive guitar sounds in music. Is this ever a burden? Do you ever find yourself unconsciously…

Andy Summers: That's a good question. Yeah. And probably a lot of people mean The Police by that. Well, it's very nice, but you don't even want to get stuck with that, really. You want to be able to keep moving on as much as you can. But I don't know. I think you just go on and you keep doing what you're doing. You can reshape it. But I think it can be a burden if people mean, "Well, why don't you just play just like you did in The Police?" Well, that was a long time ago now. I did that. I've gone to somewhere else with it, which I think for me right now is a lot more interesting. But I hope that, whatever it is, it's your own touch and it comes out anyway. I mean, I think I've still got that.

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