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.

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

Follow reason, but don’t ignore that gut feeling.

We do not need to operate according to the idea of a predetermined program for our lives.

Faith is primarily a process of identification the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal.

Let's all wise up. Some of us aren't fighting the fire; we're playing with fire. Flirting with the devil. Stop it! Stop it now before all hell literally breaks loose.

I'll never die. I'll just explode, right there before your eyes, onstage.

power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of money that begets money.

Hard work and determination equals success. Nothing comes easy. Put your mind to something.

Martin was dafter than a syphilitic polecat - where do I get these metaphors from?

Never, ever rest on your laurels. Today's laurels are tomorrow's compost.

In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist -- but I found I had nothing to say.