Moog Quotes

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

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. ~ Robert Moog

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

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. ~ Robert Moog

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. ~ Robert Moog

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. ~ Robert Moog

We don't just have equipment to set up, we have a whole stage set: TVs tuned to static, a busted old Moog synthesizer (also tuned to static - it basically just sits onstage, drooling, like a demented robot friend), an ironing board we use as a percussion stand, lamps (because we prefer mood lighting to rock-show lighting), various car parts and kitchen utensils (for hitting), a movie screen we project slides onto and a pair of mannequin legs in a gold lamé miniskirt with a TV for a torso. All this may sound arty, but really, it's just overenthusiastic. ~ Kristin Hersh

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. ~ Robert Moog

Who says vanquish anymore?" Moog breathed.
People who vanquished things, Clay supposed. ~ Nicholas Eames

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

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. ~ Robert Moog

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

I am merely a conduit, a kind of big hairy tool. I am just a plastic funnel connected to a Moog ... ~ Vangelis

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. ~ Robert Moog

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

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