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I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.
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One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.
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The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
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The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
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Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.
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I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.
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My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.
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An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.
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I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.
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I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.
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If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.
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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.
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Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they've ever been in terms of what I can do.
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I think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga.
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It accumulates over the years and I've led so many bands of my own now and forced myself into new situations... You would hope that you play better and better - until you just get too feeble to do it anymore.
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Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.
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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.
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My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.
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I realize that nothing's as it seems.
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I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.
Andy Summers The Police
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I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.
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I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.
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The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.
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I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.
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