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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.