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 Read Quote
By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years’ experience building electronic musical instruments. Robert Moog Read Quote
The point is that I don’t design stuff for myself. I’m a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use. Robert Moog Read Quote
My transition from scientist to entrepreneur? Some would say that I still haven’t made that transition. Robert Moog Read Quote
To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off. Robert Moog Read Quote
Back in the ’40s and early ’50s, building simple electronic projects was a popular hobby of many people. Back then, you could buy, you know, a few parts and – with tubes and build something on your kitchen table, and it would actually work. Robert Moog Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
