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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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