31 Quotes by Robert Moog

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 I opened the T-burg shop, I thought I was going into the electronic kit business, ... Then I met a composer who wanted to make electronic music on tape. We got together just for fun.

To me the synthesizer was always a source of new sounds that musicians could use to expand the range of possibilities for making music.

It's certainly more than a technological activity, although we instrument designers certainly use electronic technology as a design tool. But I wouldn't call it an artistic activity. We're toolmakers. Making tools is a craft, maybe even a high craft. I'd say that we are craftsmen rather than artists.

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

In the final weeks of his life, he was bedridden,

He brought electronic music to the masses and changed the way we hear 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.

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