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" It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band. "

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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. "

" It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward. "

" I like to play with someone who can cover a lot of ground and someone with whom you can discuss the language at a reasonable level; otherwise it gets a bit frustrating. "

" It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards. "

" If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either. "

" I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over. "

" The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar. "

" My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient. "

" I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster. "

" There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. "

" I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion. "

" I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards. "

" 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. "

" I'm better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created. "

" More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp. "

" I would like to play with electronic keyboards again. "

" I think rock records tend to be very expensive. "

" I actually think I play better now than I've ever played. "

" 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. "

" For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument. "

" I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music. "

" If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger. "