You're forced to step into that performer role. I can't just hide behind a synthesizer forever. — Nicholas Thorburn Copy Share Image
As soon as people hear my voice and synthesizer together they hear Erasure. — Andy Bell Copy Share Image
I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer. — John Eaton Copy Share Image
It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards. — Andy Summers Copy Share Image
I've worked with the same Prophet 5 Synthesizer by Sequential Circuit synthesiser for 40 years. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
To me, I don't see any difference between a synthesizer and an acoustic instrument. It's what's done on it that counts. — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the source of the… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
A guitar being played by an actual person is never going to be as precise and perfect as a programmed synthesizer. But… — Matt Bellamy Copy Share Image
It means basically I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
I'm really not into the idea of just faking songs with a synthesizer. That just isn't the music I'm making at all. — Hamilton Leithauser Copy Share Image
I'm going in that direction rather than the 80's synth-pop direction where it's more obvious you're hearing a synthesizer. — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
I think it was inevitable that I get into synthesizer music. I always wanted to deal with sound more than anything else.… — Vangelis Copy Share Image
I took to the synthesizer. My cousin had some synthesizers, and I'd always make stuff on those things. — Flying Lotus Copy Share Image
I used to practice piano for hours, and now, with a synthesizer, you can input the music and the machine perfects the… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
For me, the tabletop is an easy way to eliminate the possibilities of chords, modes, melodies, and harmonies. It kind of confines… — Kevin Drumm Copy Share Image
I started working with synthesizer players, and I had to find new instruments. I needed a more complex sound, so I went… — Z'EV Copy Share Image
I put all those synthesizer sounds behind "Decoy" and "Code M.D." A lot of things we write together. A lot of things… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
But synthesizer music has been accepted as emotional for long enough that it isn't a huge reach, conceptually, to think of a… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
I have a Chamberlain I bought from some surfers in Westwood many years ago. It's an early analog synthesizer; it operates on… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated with sound, since I was a little kid when my mother Dorothy Dean took me to my first… — Mike Dean Copy Share Image
The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
When you can inspire other people to do something they couldn't do before, that's a very satisfying feeling. Sometimes I meet people… — Erik Wiegand Copy Share Image
The use of electronics is a natural extension of the instrument - it is an electric guitar. So we guitarists have been… — Tim Brady Copy Share Image
My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now. — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp. — Andy Summers Copy Share Image
The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar. — Andy Summers Copy Share Image
I have an Otari with a Korg T2 Midi synthesizer, a drum machine and a few effects units. — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
If it's fast, no I don't have enough piano technique. In that case, it's probably been done on some kind of synthesizer… — Bill Bruford Copy Share Image
People shouldn't knock the synthesizer. It's an aid, and it depends on how you use it, just like any other instrument. — Dusty Hill Copy Share Image
If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you… — Andy Summers Copy Share Image
There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like… — Matt Tong Copy Share Image
If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic… — Andy Summers Copy Share Image
Music has been taken over in this country by personalities and dominated by rock 'n' roll. There's been a synthesizer invasion and… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
All those ethereal string sounds on 'Oxygene IV' come from the VCS3. It was the first European synthesizer, made in England by… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
Never let your wife prevent you from buying equipment. A car will not buy a synthesizer, but a synthesizer can buy a… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
![“I put all those synthesizer sounds behind "Decoy" and "Code M.D." A lot of things we write together. A lot of things are his, but they don't have that thing I want on the bottom. I often tell him, I say, "Bobby [Irving], if there's a melody, there's another one somewhere that goes with it."” quote by Miles Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/094/miles-davis-1842_behinds_i-put-all-those-synthesizer-sounds-behin_1039125.jpg)
