Synthesizer Quotes

#1. James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.

Samuel Beckett

#2. There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That's a personal point of view but that's the way I see it. I think that's what it's all about. The drive, the fire, the passion - it all comes out on the guitar.

Jimmy Page

#3. It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

Andy Summers

#4. I have a Chamberlain I bought from some surfers in Westwood many years ago. It's an early analog synthesizer; it operates on tape loops. It has 60 voices - everything from galloping horses to owls to rain to every instrument in the orchestra.

Tom Waits

#5. For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.

Marc Almond

#6. I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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

John Frusciante

#8. For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.

Andy Summers

#9. I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.

Robert Moog

#10. Never let your wife prevent you from buying equipment. A car will not buy a synthesizer, but a synthesizer can buy a car.

Hans Zimmer

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

Andy Summers

#12. Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer.

Charlie Haden

#13. If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet.

Andy Summers

#14. The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.

Stephen Hawking

#15. I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer.

John Eaton

#16. If smart technology can transform 3-D from a crude novelty to a genuine visual enhancement, why shouldn't a sophisticated odor synthesizer follow a similar path?

Charles Platt

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

Andy Summers

#18. I'm a synthesizer. We need to synthesize more the relationships between artists and scientists, and men and women.

Leonard Shlain

#19. As soon as people hear my voice and synthesizer together they hear Erasure.

Andy Bell

#20. On the delivery plate of the Nutri-Matic Drink Synthesizer was a small tray, on which say three bone china cups and saucers, a bone china jug of milk, a silver teapot full of the best tea Arthur had ever tasted and a small printed note saying Wait.

Douglas Adams

#21. But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism.

John Frusciante

#22. The head is in charge of thinking; the heart is in charge of feeling; and the spirit realizes the creative, infinitely thriving power of life while imagination acts as translator and synthesizer.

Deborah Sandella

#23. There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.

Matt Tong

#24. In England, people had been loudly proclaiming the death of the guitar and the birth of the synthesizer, but Sonic Youth and other American guitar bands started to create a buzz.

Kim Gordon

#25. It means basically 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

#26. If it's fast, no I don't have enough piano technique. In that case, it's probably been done on some kind of synthesizer or sequencer. Then the score can then be printed out and so forth.

Bill Bruford

#27. If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.

Andy Summers

#28. A MIDI file contains coded instructions to play a particular series of notes on an electronic music synthesizer. A MIDI file is more like a piano roll in a player piano than any type of sound recording.

Charles Petzold

#29. I started working with synthesizer players, and I had to find new instruments. I needed a more complex sound, so I went to a surplus place and got a bunch of hard plastic stuff and stainless steel stuff, and that stuff worked. So from that point on, from the 70s on, I've made instruments.

Z'EV

#30. I am in touch with a company that hopes to replicate my voice. However, they are not replicating my original voice - if they did that, I would sound like a man in his 20s, which would be very strange! They are actually trying to replicate the synthesizer that sits on my wheelchair.

Stephen Hawking

#31. 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