Robert Moog

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

“I'm not a musician. I'm a craftsman.”

“Every time I make a new circuit, I have to learn how to play it.”

“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.”

“What I am is a humanist. I am a humanist with a tool box.”

“My whole life has been dedicated to pleasing people in the music business.”

“A musical instrument is a device that communicates emotion.”

“To me, the synthesizer is a source of sounds. It's a way of making sounds that you can't make any other way.”

“There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time.”

“My goal was to develop a tool for musicians. I wasn't thinking about the pop music world at all.”

“It's not about the technology. It's about the music.”

“The sound of a Moog synthesizer is the sound of electricity.”

“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.”