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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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