Characteristic Quote by Andy Summers

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

— Andy Summers

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

— Andy Summers

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

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 was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with…

— Robert Moog

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

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

— Anonymous

A guitar being played by an actual person is never going to be as precise and perfect as a programmed synthesizer. But we maintain…

— Matt Bellamy

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'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

I don't love using synthesizers, but I do use synthesizers. I'm more inspired by acoustic instruments - as long as there's something making the…

— Jack Conte

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