Robert Moog Quotes

Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

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.

My transition from scientist to entrepreneur? Some would say that I still haven't made that transition.

I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers ... They use my tools.

My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.

To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off.

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.

I'm finishing building a house and setting up a shop to build custom electronical musical instruments.

Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level.

What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.

The mini-Moog was conceived originally as a session musician's axe, something a guy could carry to the studio, do a gig and walk out.