I'm An Engineer. I See Myself As

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.

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.

I'm An Engineer. I See Myself As A Toolmaker And The Musicians Are My Customers... They Use My Tools.

Other Kids Went Out And Beat Each Other Up Or Played Baseball, And I Built Electronics.

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.