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.
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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
I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.
Robert Moog
To me the synthesizer was always a source of new sounds that musicians could use to expand the range of possibilities for making music.
Robert Moog
It's certainly more than a technological activity, although we instrument designers certainly use electronic technology as a design tool. But I wouldn't call it an artistic activity. We're toolmakers. Making tools is a craft, maybe even a high craft. I'd say that we are craftsmen rather than artists.
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
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
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