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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.