Firsts Quote by Robert Moog

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 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

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

— Joe Hisaishi

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

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

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

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

— Herbie Hancock

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

Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.

— Billy Corgan

Some thought it strange that we incorporated synthesizers in our music but the equipment was there so we just figured out a way to…

— Dusty Hill

When synthesizers appeared everyone was a composer suddenly.

— Alexandre Desplat

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