I'd like to play live, but the thing I do now with my synthesizers, almost everything is vocoder-driven. — Kyle Parker Copy Share Image
As soon as people hear my voice and synthesizer together they hear Erasure. — Andy Bell Copy Share Image
Synthesizers can be programmed with more imagination than a real, 'human' performance. It's a joyful thing. — Joe Hisaishi 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'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
By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments. — Robert Moog Copy Share Image
I have the utmost respect for synthesizers - Soft Cell, early Depeche Mode. But that's become a cliche for the '80s. — Ariel Rechtshaid Copy Share Image
From early on, when synthesizers were first introduced into music, I liked the idea that you could get a big sound with… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music. — Duncan Sheik Copy Share Image
But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
[Paul McCartney] never, at the time, was going back to leaning back on the roots of his old band. He always built… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's so much easier to use the default sounds in the synthesizers in Logic than it is to make your own thing… — D.A. Wallach 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 was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make… — Robert Moog Copy Share Image
I really love a lot of Japanese music, like Ryuichi Sakamoto and this guy I got really into, Tatsuro Yamashita. When I… — Mac DeMarco Copy Share Image
That's where my influences lie, in the blues with people like Muddy Waters and Tina Turner. At first I didn't really like… — Vince Clarke Copy Share Image
Working with devices and guitar pedals and mixers and synthesizers is what I do, and I prefer people not focus on that… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
The adventure is when people don't know what they're doing at all. Like, I think that the first pop band to use… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
I'm interested in finding sounds and ideas that help bring the audience into the world that we [moviemakes] are all trying to… — Joseph Trapanese 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
There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That's a personal point of… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
People are tied together and yet isolated from each other by invisible threads of rhythm and hidden walls of time. Time is...… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if… — Brian Eno 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
I had invented my own system, my own way of making electronic music at the San Francisco Tape Music Centre, and I… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
“I probably won’t play a song the same way tomorrow as I play it today. Only a pitchman says the same thing… — Anton Szandor LaVey 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
The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
All modern MIDI synthesizers are capable of polyphony, which means they can play more than one note at a time and more… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
Who's going to save rock 'n' roll? It's so silly. Remember like in '86 or '87 and synthesizers were going to take… — Matthew Caws Copy Share Image
In my solo work on my own albums, I have used voice synthesizers and vocoders quite a lot in connection with orchestral… — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
I was never somebody who was a fan of synthesizers. When I was growing up, they were so overused in pop music,… — Michael Penn 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
![“[Paul McCartney] never, at the time, was going back to leaning back on the roots of his old band. He always built upon where he was, which was in London. And he didn't overuse synthesizers. He used them just enough. It's such a cool sound.” quote by Fred Armisen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9cd/fred-armisen-2330_band_paul-mccartney-never-at-the-time-was-goi_1827270.jpg)
![“I'm interested in finding sounds and ideas that help bring the audience into the world that we [moviemakes] are all trying to create. Sometimes that's with synthesizers, and sometimes that's with French horns. I love using all of them, depending on the scenario.” quote by Joseph Trapanese](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/194/joseph-trapanese-38613_audience_i-m-interested-in-finding-sounds-and-ide_1792737.jpg)
![“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)
