Able Quote by David Tudor

Sometimes you cannot produce a specific sound you want with, say, a guitar or piano, and you simply need to use electronic elements.

— Ludovico Einaudi

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

— Richard Thompson

We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical.…

— Chico Hamilton

I didn't have any sophisticated equipment at all. The equipment we had in the studio at the time was not intended to make music;…

— Pauline Oliveros

I'm very lazy when it comes to making the original sound. I don't go through amplifiers and different compressors and signal parts. I just…

— Imogen Heap

I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically,…

— Leon Theremin

It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.

— Giorgio Moroder

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

— Stan Getz

All the sounds that I make, I want to make sure there are new stuff. I don't want to follow anyone's path or anything,…

— Kris Wu

I invent by analogy. I thought, 'It's commonplace that you can mix colors, smear them together to get new emerging colors. Likewise, you can…

— Woody Norris

I found that the flute was too limiting. Soon I bought a microphone, then loudspeakers, then an echo, then a synthesiser. Much later I…

— Florian Schneider

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

— Andy Summers