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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

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I have the utmost respect for synthesizers - Soft Cell, early Depeche Mode. But that's become a cliche for the '80s.

— Ariel Rechtshaid

I figured as long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train.'

— Don Cornelius

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

— Glenn Frey

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

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

— Andy Summers

Soul music as we've always known it hasn't changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically.

— Don Cornelius

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

— Charles Hazlewood

✗Opposing Perspectives

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 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