I Had Been Building Electronic Musical Instruments

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.

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.

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.

By The Time I Got To Building Synthesizers, I Had Perhaps 20 Years Experience Building Electronic Musical Instruments.