Top 22 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Moog

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Robert Arthur Moog was an American engineer and electronic music pioneer. He was the founder of the synthesizer manufacturer Moog Music and the inventor of the first commercial synthesizer, the Moog synthesizer, which debuted in 1964. In 1970, Moog released a more portable model, the Minimoog, described as the most famous and influential synthesizer in history. Among Moog's honors are a Technical Grammy Award, received in 2002, and an induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

American - Inventor | May 23, 1934 - August 21, 2005

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By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments.

Robert Moog

There are confirmed stories of people who can break instruments and cause them to fail by walking in a room. I'm the opposite - I can walk into a room and something will work better than it is supposed to.

Robert Moog

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

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

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

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

Everything has some consciousness, and we tap into that. It is about energy at its most basic level.

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

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

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

Robert Moog

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

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

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

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

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

I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.

Robert Moog

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

Robert Moog

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

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

Robert Moog

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years experience building electronic musical instruments.

Robert Moog

Part of what I do is a craft, but part of what I do is a science. And I guess the craft comes in knowing what science to use and what science not to use.

Robert Moog

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

Top 22 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Moog

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