31 Quotes by Robert Moog

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.

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

The mini-Moog was conceived originally as a session musician's axe, something a guy could carry to the studio, do a gig and walk out.

The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.

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.

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

I'm finishing building a house and setting up a shop to build custom electronical musical instruments.

There are confirmed stories of people who can break instruments and cause them to fail by walking in a room. I'm the opposite - I can walk into a room and something will work better than it is supposed to.