Achieve Quote by Allan Holdsworth

If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I…

— Andy Summers

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— Andy Summers

Perhaps since I have been using the Synthaxe, it might have made it easier for people to listen to me, in a funny kind…

— Allan Holdsworth

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

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

The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.

— Herbie Hancock

The synth helped us in that it meant you didn't have to be a traditional four-piece band and basically, you didn't have to work…

— Curt Smith

People started to ask me, 'Do you really play guitar?' They thought it was a prop. It was just interesting, because of all the…

— Nancy Wilson

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

— Andy Summers

There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That's a personal point of view but…

— Jimmy Page