Air Quote by Florian Schneider

I've never been one of those musicians to differentiate between acoustic and electronic sounds. I just see it all as sound sources to be…

— Bonobo

To me, there's never been a difference between electronic and acoustic. I've always had this idea that electricity is another element like wind or…

— Patrick Wolf

An electronic instrument is just harboring a natural element the same way that a guitar is harboring an acoustic element. It's all nature, really.

— Patrick Wolf

A horn has that voice quality, and an electric guitar can emulate that. But playing an acoustic, the notes don't sustain like that.

— Bill Orcutt

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

The idea that recording itself is an instrument.

— Michael Snow

Doing the acoustic at Carnegie is basically advised because electric music tends to get, let's just say, acoustically unsound.

— Joe Bonamassa

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

— Richard Thompson

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

There are a lot of cases where I'm using, if not an acoustic guitar, an electric guitar more as a rhythm instrument. Rather than…

— Billy Squier

All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or in large…

— C. V. Raman

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

— Giorgio Moroder