Andy Summers Quotes

When it comes to music, I am a dictator. Making a Dirty Projectors record come to life is like making a movie; I'm the one that makes the picture, and then we all figure out how to realise it.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.

It don't matter who I'm working with. I just feel like I want to make the best record possible.

Because somebody plays guitar, why does it mean they need a singer? Because people already have this image of things? No, I'll put my music together, then think about whether I need to embellish it with a singer.

Everyone thought my first album would be instrumental, but I didn't want to do it - it took me eight months to make.

When I did my solo album, I put on a song that I'd planned for Toto that never made an album constructed from a great drum track with Jeff and a bass track with Mike and the guys loved it.

If you look back into the Superlatives' body of work, we've always included instrumentals.

When I make an album I love to spend a long time making it and put my heart and soul into it.

When I was about 14, I got a tacky keyboard for 250 pounds and put on a drum machine and found I could write a song.

The synth helped us in that it meant you didn't have to be a traditional four-piece band and basically, you didn't have to work too hard.

I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.

I need to do music.

To record an album is cathartic, or at least it was with 'Belus,' but to make music is more fulfilling than anything else, I think.

It doesn't matter how many records you've made; there's always a new experience you can get with a new producer.

Singing is something that I have done all my life, but what I did on my first two records was to hide the vocals. They're there to thicken the web of the cello.

When I'm recording, I usually just mumble and hum a melody and then fill the words in as I go.

Gunna was the second person I ever made a song with.

It takes so much energy and time to make one song perfect.

EDM has trained a new generation of listeners' ears to accept a much broader range of what equals a song. EDM has become top 40 stuff: those sounds, those styles, those ways of thinking about song structure - even thinking that vocals aren't necessarily the central element - those ideas have made their way into popular culture.

Creating a record on my own and deciding who plays and how the songs were structured, it was fun to do.

I generally prefer to come in to the studio with a fully written song and then work on the arrangement with the band. Sometimes even the arrangements are pretty much already worked out in my head, but other times we experiment.

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

I'd always envisioned 'The Big Beat' leading off 'The Tale of the Tape' with the biggest drumbeat the rock world had ever heard. I knew I had something good… but I had no idea just how good.

I'm always working on multiple songs at a time.