The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were…

[Paul McCartney] never, at the time, was going back to leaning back on the roots of his old band. He always built upon where…

— Fred Armisen

My mother used to rock me - and she used big rocks.

— Rodney Dangerfield

I started working with synthesizer players, and I had to find new instruments. I needed a more complex sound, so I went to a…

— Z'EV

A lot of the early Washed Out material was done on a couple of synthesizers that did most of the work, but that's the…

— Washed Out

There are only so many instruments you can layer on top of each other that aren't perfectly electronically programmed. "Long Vermont Roads" just cannot…

— Stephin Merritt

I had invented my own system, my own way of making electronic music at the San Francisco Tape Music Centre, and I was using…

— Pauline Oliveros

Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.

— Billy Corgan

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…

— Andy Summers

I have mostly software synthesizers and software drum machines. I'm very lazy. I don't really like to plug in a lot of equipment and…

— Karin Dreijer Andersson

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

— Andy Summers

It means basically I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the source of…

— John Frusciante

The use of electronics is a natural extension of the instrument - it is an electric guitar. So we guitarists have been plugging into…

— Tim Brady

From early on, when synthesizers were first introduced into music, I liked the idea that you could get a big sound with them, electronic,…

— John Carpenter

When synthesizers appeared everyone was a composer suddenly.

— Alexandre Desplat

The adventure is when people don't know what they're doing at all. Like, I think that the first pop band to use synthesizers as…

— Stephin Merritt