Synthesizers Quotes

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

E. O. Wilson

Motivational, Running, Knowledge

E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.399, Vintage

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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

Order, Musician, Firsts

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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

Wife, Car, Buying

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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

Trying, Joyce, I Can

1981 In the New York Times,19 Apr.

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From early on, when synthesizers were first introduced into music, I liked the idea that you could get a big sound with them - electronic, but like an orchestra. And I could play it all myself. That was exciting.

John Carpenter

Play, Ideas, Sound

Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. April 10, 2011.

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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 of working with synthesizers but now I think they're fun, there are no restrictions. Not that I understand how they work.

Vince Clarke

Fun, Lying, Thinking

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I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

Robert Moog

Cat, Thinking, Long

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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

Guitar, Should, Instruments

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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

Passion, Player, Thinking

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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.

Matthew Caws

Silly, Rocks, World

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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

Mean, Sound, Use

Interview with Evan C Chase, www.scenepointblank.com. October 16, 2010.

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

Steven Tyler

Firsts

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

Andy Summers

Guitar, Competition, Keyboards

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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. It's natural for me to go with what I feel. If I didn't let that other stuff out and stuck to a certain format, I would feel like I was missing out on something. I'm just enjoying my ride and being who I am.

Gary Clark, Jr.

Rocks, Who I Am, Play

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I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.

Robert Moog

Musician, Tools, Use

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

Andy Summers

Guitar, Two, Albums

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I had invented my own system, my own way of making electronic music at the San Francisco Tape Music Centre, and I was using what is now referred to as a classical electronic music studio, consisting of tube oscillators and patch bays. There were no mixers or synthesizers. So I managed to figure out how to make the oscillators sing. I used a tape delay system using two tape recorders and stringing the tape between the two tape machines and being able to configure the tracks coming back in different ways.

Pauline Oliveros

Two, San Francisco, Track

Source: artsmania.ca

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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

Song, Guitar, Play

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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

Song, Ideas

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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

Guitar, Trying, Sound

Source: pitchfork.com

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

Andy Summers

Guitar, Obvious Things, Sound

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

Andy Summers

Writing, Guitar, Instruments

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My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.

Robert Moog

Opportunity, Design, Training

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

Duncan Sheik

Teenager, Track, Machines

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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.

D.A. Wallach

Play, Sound, Use

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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