Firsts Quote by Vince Clarke

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 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

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

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

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

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

— Herbie Hancock

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

— Flying Lotus

I couldn't make a real drum'n'bass or dubstep record to save my life. But I can be influenced by them in small ways.

— DJ Shadow

Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict that idea.

— Brendon Urie

I grew up with synthesizers and weird, spacey music-hip-hop, R&B, modern rock-that I heard on the radio. That's influenced the way I play music.…

— Gary Clark, Jr

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

I'm really not into the idea of just faking songs with a synthesizer. That just isn't the music I'm making at all.

— Hamilton Leithauser