Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.

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 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.

Everything has some consciousness, and we tap into that. It is about energy at its most basic level.

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

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.

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

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.

To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off.

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.

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

Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable.

I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.

Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death

I never got many questions about my managing. I tried to get twenty-five guys who didn't ask questions.

There's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.

Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.

When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to see if I could bring any wealth to the household.

I hate the word wholesome.

A good collection is more than just the sum of its parts.