Andy Summers Quotes

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

Everything I've performed has been from my own head.

I wasn't trying to sound like anybody else. Basically, I was just experimenting all over the place.

In the era we came up in, you had to have your own thing.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

I like to create something that's unique and kind of true to myself and authentic and everything. I don't really like to mirror myself after different artists.

If you paint a picture and I paint a picture, we each want to do it our own way. And we'll stand or fall on whatever we did.

Everything I do is me. I don't like taking ideas from people unless they're the G.O.A.T.

In my music, I'm never going to force anything to try to recreate a moment or something.

Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.

I always took a great deal of pride in being original.

No man was ever great by imitation.

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby.

I'm very big on doing my own thing.

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.