Robert Moog Quotes

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.

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

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 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.

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.

To me the synthesizer was always a source of new sounds that musicians could use to expand the range of possibilities for making music.

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

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.