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If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet.

— Andy Summers

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Andy Summers

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

If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.

— Daisy Berkowitz

I agree with the rest of the band, that a truly synthesized sound isn't really what I would want to go for.

— Mike Gordon

It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.

— Giorgio Moroder

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

— Andy Summers

That's what I miss out of all this synthesized music - it starts to lose dynamics.

— Glenn Frey

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

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

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

— Andy Summers