Andy Summers Quotes

I used to play in biker bars, different places like that.

I drummed in some rock bands. I asked for a drum kit when I was 15 and my parents were kind enough to buy me one and I just started playing with my buddies who played guitar.

I don't really go out to clubs, but if I did, I'd just want to go rock out with my mates or whatever.

Rock 'n' roll never sleeps it just passes out.

When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame.

I was in one bar band from 1965 to '69, then I was in another one from 1970 to '79 - a 9-year bar band!

It's a big shame, because 'Trixter' in my mind were what a real rock n' roll band is all about.

The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll.

Whitesnake more than most rock bands would get a very significant percentage of women in the audience and those were the ones I'd hear the voices because from where I am on stage is a pretty good spot.

Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.

Go out and support your local rock n' roll band.

I saw Led Zeppelin live for the first time when I was thirteen.

There's only one true king of rock 'n' roll. His name is Chuck Berry.

It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ’n’ Roll)

Anyone who tells you they got into rock'n'roll for reasons other than girls, fame and money is full of s***.

Drugs and sex go hand in hand when you're a rock and roll musician. Whereas if I were a violinist, it might be a little different.

I love David Bowie and Cher and Diana Ross. I wanted to follow in their footsteps. So I set out to do that in a rock-'n'-roll band in Atlanta, Georgia. That led me to nightclubs and to the sort of Andy Warhol experience of creating a personality.

I sold my soul to rock 'n' roll.

I never could understand - it was impossible for me to get my head around - what the furor was, what the sense of betrayal and anger and rage was about Bob Dylan's beginning to perform with a band, to play rock-and-roll, to get on the radio.

I play these [folk acoustic] concerts and I ask myself, 'Would you come see me tonight?' - and I'd have to answer truthfully, 'No, I wouldn't come. I'd rather be doin' something else, really I would. That something else is rock... The words are pictures, and the rock's gonna help me flesh out the colors of the pictures. (1965)

Maybe because I have spent too much of my life in rock clubs. I don't really go to parties anymore either. I'll usually be in the bus by 11:30 after a show.

For us Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp is bigger than the music. It is very much an experience that brings a lot of skills and discoveries about yourself together. In that respect, it also enables you to learn that being in a band is a lot tougher than sitting around and playing guitar in your bedroom.

Rock 'n' roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.

Places like Belgium and the south of France, Sweden and Copenhagen are really alive. They really love rock 'n' roll, they really respond.

Around the time the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, I was already in a band.