Funny Quote by Allan Holdsworth

I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the source of the sound.

— John Frusciante

I was always fascinated particularly with synths: how they looked and stuff that when you're a kid you're like this is the most incredible…

— Jon Hopkins

My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.

— John Frusciante

Sometimes you have to put a wrench in the gears to get people to listen.

— Alicia Garza

If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.

— Anonymous

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

The SynthAxe enables you to achieve a whole world of sonic textures that you cannot get with a guitar. There was nothing like it…

— Allan Holdsworth

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

Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

— Florence Welch

Synthesizers can be programmed with more imagination than a real, 'human' performance. It's a joyful thing.

— Joe Hisaishi

When you listen carefully to the soundscape it becomes quite miraculous.

— R. Murray Schafer