Robert Moog
Robert Moog
Robert Arthur "Bob" Moog, founder of Moog Music, was an American engineer and pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionInventor
Date of Birth23 May 1934
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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I'm an engineer, ... I see myself as a toolmaker, and the musicians are my customers. They use the tools.
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In the final weeks of his life, he was bedridden,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off.
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I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.
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By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years experience building electronic musical instruments.
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Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.
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To me the synthesizer was always a source of new sounds that musicians could use to expand the range of possibilities for making music.
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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.
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I'm finishing building a house and setting up a shop to build custom electronical musical instruments.
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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.