Long Quote by Stephin Merritt

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

— Joe Hisaishi

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 you write on the road, you are restricted to the instruments around you, whereas in the studio, you can plug anything in and…

— Ted Dwane

All modern MIDI synthesizers are capable of polyphony, which means they can play more than one note at a time and more than one…

— Charles Petzold

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

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

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

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

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

— Herbie Hancock

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

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

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

— Andy Summers