Synth Quotes

#1. Man must endure his going hence.

C.S. Lewis

#2. Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea.

Eberhard Weber

#3. That's the thing with keeping up appearances, Rose; people will do anything to get one and anything to keep one.

Skyla Madi

#4. I started buying records in the '80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk.

Juan Campodonico

#5. I'm just a sucker for new-agey synth sounds and instrumentation. I wasn't really thinking of soft rock, but I know that kind of quiet-storm format uses a lot of these sounds.

Dan Bejar

#6. Just moving one keyboard or synth is a pain in the ass.

Prefuse 73

#7. I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.

John Frusciante

#8. I have learned that collaboration are everything to me. Music is a social thing. If there are no ears to hear it, it has no value. I have really loved getting input from other great musicians- like recording strings with my family or making weird synth sounds with tore nissen.

Oh Land

#9. Oftentimes the most produced and synth-tastic songs are the ones that end up sounding the best acoustic.

Emily Haines

#10. I was making more electronic and synth-based music, and when I changed my name, it helped me grow and liberate myself a little bit.

Sydney Wayser

#11. Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.

David Bowie

#12. I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.

Grimes

#13. I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.

John Frusciante

#14. The nerds have taken over the newsrooms.

Phillip Knightley

#15. I'm pretty much fully digital. I've basically spent a few painstaking days putting sounds into my laptop, just banking them, because I love playing, and I love visually seeing it on my screen and being able to change the sounds more, with different plug-ins. I've created my own synth sounds.

Dev Hynes

#16. The movie resumed. The retro synth vibes were awesome; the hairstyles and clothing had us in stitches. With no nostalgia

Stan Crowe

#17. If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.

Daisy Berkowitz

#18. I think that you should definitely listen to what people say, because everyone says it: High school is not the real world.

Katy Perry

#19. When I was playing with synth players, I was still within a conceptual framework of playing music. When I started playing solo, I became much more aware of the acoustic phenomena that the instruments were producing.

Z'EV

#20. Love everyone like a flower loves the world.

Debasish Mridha