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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

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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 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

Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict that idea.

— Brendon Urie

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 didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.

— Gary Wright

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

— Andy Summers

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

— Robert Moog

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

— Andy Summers

✗Opposing Perspectives

The thing about making a musical is that you can and will be replaceable really quickly.

— Megan Hilty

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