#synthesizers

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

#first of all #i #make #music #musician

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

— Robert Moog

#by the time #electronic #experience #got #had

I probably won’t play a song the same way tomorrow as I play it today. Only a pitchman says the same thing the same way twice, without varying a word. If music is a language, why don’t people use it with the same subtlety, nuance, and facility as they do the spoken language? Probably because they don’t verbalize with the same vocabulary and tone they once did. It has been said that a people’s character is reflected in their music. Our culture is a perfect example. If people here walk around using one-syllable words with no color, no variety, no shading, how can we expect our musical language to be any different? It’s like the emperor’s new clothes – sure they can sit and make wild noises on their synthesizers and call it music – who questions? But ask them to pull up a chair and play ‘Gal in Calico’ or Temptation,’ or even a straight dramatic version of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ and they can’t do it. They’re too pretentious. They can’t just play songs. ↗

— Anton Szandor LaVey

#music #noise #synthesizers #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. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#i #know #known #play #supposed

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

— Steven Tyler

#gotten #had #i #synthesizers

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

#about #choices #critically #drowning #henceforth