Synth Quotes

If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth. (Daisy Berkowitz)
Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano. View quote
David Bowie
In [the early 1980s], making electronic music was a big job, particularly the way that I was doing it. To get the sounds I wanted, I might have 24 synthesizers playing one synth line, all programmed, all analogue and all drifting out of tune. It used to take hours and hours and hours. I don't know how we ever got through it. View quote
Martin Rushent
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. View quote
Eberhard Weber
I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach. View quote
John Frusciante
Ideally, a song should contain both elements of high melodic tension, and low melodic tension. No listener wants to sit through a totally high-energy 180 BPM non-stop 6-minute ride through synth mania unless they are already busy grooving madly on some dance floor in a smoky club somewhere. Also, unless your listener is on heavy sedation, he or she will not enjoy your sparse 18-minute ambient tune which consists of the same languid piano riff repeated over and over again. View quote
Andrew Sega