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.

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.

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

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

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