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

Robert Moog

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Robert Moog
Age: 71 †
Born: 1934
Born: May 23
Died: 2005
Died: August 21
Engineer
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Musical Instrument Maker
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University Teacher
New York City
New York
Bob Moog
Robert Arthur Moog
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I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.
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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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Part of what I do is a craft, but part of what I do is a science. And I guess the craft comes in knowing what science to use and what science not to use.
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Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.
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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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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.
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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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To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off.
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Everything has some consciousness, and we tap into that. It is about energy at its most basic level.
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My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.
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