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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
For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.
Marc Almond
It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
Andy Summers
James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.
Samuel Beckett
The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
Andy Summers
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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 
64% of people like this quote
For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.
Marc Almond
56% of people like this quote
It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
Andy Summers
54% of people like this quote
James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.
Samuel Beckett
53% of people like this quote
The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
Andy Summers
52% of people like this quote
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
50% of people like this quote
My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.
John Frusciante
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For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
Andy Summers
48% of people like this quote
More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
Andy Summers
46% of people like this quote
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