21 Synthesizer Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Better Old Made Synthesizer Voice Like Identified Because Heard Very Use Keep Hardware Speech

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

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

The spirit of Burzum never changed, but my ability to make music changed dramatically when I was imprisoned. It is more or less impossible to record music in prison, and the only music I could record was electronic music, when I was allowed to have a synthesizer for a few months in 1994 or 1995 and in 1998. Varg Vikernes

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

Music Changed Approach Synthesizer Whole Now

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

Guitar Synthesizer More Robert Did Used Albums Two Recently

To me, the original VCS3 synthesizer is like a Stradivarius. Jean-Michel Jarre

Me Synthesizer Like Original

My first synthesizer was the VCS3. I got it in Bristol in the late Sixties, long before Pink Floyd used them. I had to sell an acoustic guitar and an old reel-to-reel tape recorder to raise the money. You can do fantastic things with modern computers, but you cannot use them in the same intuitive, spontaneous way you can a VCS3. Jean-Michel Jarre

You Money Guitar Old Long First Before Late Way Synthesizer Intuitive Recorder Computers Had Spontaneous Got Tape Tape Recorder Pink Pink Floyd Sell Same Modern Sixties Cannot Acoustic Acoustic Guitar Them Fantastic Use Used Things Raise Bristol Floyd

A guitar being played by an actual person is never going to be as precise and perfect as a programmed synthesizer. But we maintain there is value in the potential for human error. Matt Bellamy

Guitar Value Synthesizer Potential Perfect Never Maintain Error Person Precise Going Human Being Human Error Actual Played Programmed

When I first heard the song 'Eruption,' which is Eddie Van Halen's most famous solo composition, I was confused because it sounded incredible, but I didn't know what it was. I didn't know if it was a guitar. I didn't know if it was a synthesizer or a keyboard. I couldn't figure it out. Robert Trujillo

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

Good Me You Song Guitar Old Down Way Synthesizer Classic About Something Good Song Songs Like Make Always Very Orchestra Whether Acoustic Acoustic Guitar Them Old-Fashioned Play

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

Took Synthesizer Those Some Had Stuff Make Always Cousin Things

Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer. Charlie Haden

Synthesizer Some Tracks Quartet

I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer. John Eaton

First Live Think Synthesizer Performance Sound Modern Electronic

I think it was inevitable that I get into synthesizer music. I always wanted to deal with sound more than anything else. I couldn't get the sounds I wanted out of the piano. Vangelis

Music Inevitable Think Else Synthesizer Out More More Than Anything Piano Deal Always Sound Sounds Than Get Wanted Anything Anything Else

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