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Robert Moog Biography

Inventor

Robert Moog was an American inventor renowned for his contributions to electronic music and synthesizers. In 1964, he invented the Moog synthesizer, which had a profound impact on music production.

Use Musician Tools Customers Engineers Synthesizers

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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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Author:Robert Moog

“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.”

Thinking Done Opportunity Inspire Driven Composer

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

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“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.”

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

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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.”

Use Knowing Crafts

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

Energy Levels Consciousness

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“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.”

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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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“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.”

Firsts Order Musician Worried Synthesizers

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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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Author:Robert Moog

About the Author

Born: May 23, 1934
Died: August 21, 2005
Known for: Inventor
Quotes: 14

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