Synthesizers Quotes

Synthesizers Quote of the day

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.

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.

I had gotten one of the first Korg synthesizers with 300 presets.

Who's going to save rock 'n' roll? It's so silly. Remember like in '86 or '87 and synthesizers were going to take over the world? And remember "rocktronica" in 1997? It's ridiculous.

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

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.

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

It's so much easier to use the default sounds in the synthesizers in Logic than it is to make your own thing or to learn how to play an instrument.

When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.

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.

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

I have mostly software synthesizers and software drum machines. I'm very lazy. I don't really like to plug in a lot of equipment and external boxes and everything.

I'd like to play live, but the thing I do now with my synthesizers, almost everything is vocoder-driven.

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years experience building electronic musical instruments.