Ideas Quote by Hamilton Leithauser

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

— Andy Summers

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

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

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

— Joe Hisaishi

I was never somebody who was a fan of synthesizers. When I was growing up, they were so overused in pop music, usually to…

— Michael Penn

I took to the synthesizer. My cousin had some synthesizers, and I'd always make stuff on those things.

— Flying Lotus

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

— John Frusciante

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

That's where my influences lie, in the blues with people like Muddy Waters and Tina Turner. At first I didn't really like the idea…

— Vince Clarke

More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.

— Andy Summers

It's a weird job because making music or writing a song is a personal thing... and it kind of has to be. You can…

— David Longstreth

Once you have an established song, you can really come out of your shell and experiment with the sound you want to make.

— Post Malone