Moog Inc Quotes & Sayings

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. — Robert Moog

Despite ancient suspicions, nature is on inspection neither kind nor unkind. It is neither caring nor uncaring. It is not, under even the closest audit, either interested or disinterested. It is merciless, cruel, and stunningly violent, but it is also mindless and without vengeance or hate or malice. It is, from every perspective, a contrivance of dead matter simply being moved - chemically or mechanically - by the unthinking, enormously discourteous laws of the universe. — John Zande

Most actors are pretty adaptable because we work with so many directors. — Kyle MacLachlan

The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use. — Robert Moog

My spiritual history must have as its underlying foundation a personal knowledge of Jesus Christ. To be born again means that I see Jesus. — Oswald Chambers

My transition from scientist to entrepreneur? Some would say that I still haven't made that transition. — Robert Moog

He was in that mostly empty-headed state of grace which is sometimes such fertile soil ; it's the ground from which our brightest dreams and biggest ideas (both good and spectacularly bad) suddenly burst forth, often full-blown. — Stephen King

I wait, with some impatience in my pulse, but no doubt in my breast. — Charlotte Bronte

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. — Robert Moog

To care about weaving, to make weavings, is to be in touch with a long human tradition. We people have woven, first baskets and then cloth, for at least ten thousand years. This book will give you many ways to become connected with that tradition. — Phylis Morrison

And the other thing for the sort of posher kids was a sort of lethal scooter, you know. One of the things that you just push along with your - really heavy, lethal, you know, trap your fingers in and every bit of metal got rusty very quickly. And the girls I seem to remember they had a thing like a broomstick with a horse's head on the top which they sat astride. — Nick Lowe

I am merely a conduit, a kind of big hairy tool. I am just a plastic funnel connected to a Moog ... — Vangelis

It there's one thing certain, it's that we all have to get old someday. So get used to the idea as quickly as you can. — Betty Smith

obvious they had not heard the — William L. Shirer

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

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments. — Robert Moog

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. — Robert Moog

Every man has a right to do what he wills, provided he interferes not with a like right on the part of his neighbors. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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. — Robert Moog

Stuart Clark's The Sun Kings is undoubtedly the most gripping and brilliant popular-science history account that I have ever read. It is informative, accurate, and relevant. Clark's ability to write so vividly makes me seethe with jealousy. — Owen Gingerich

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

I'm kind of a tech geek. With the camera work, I chose to shoot super 16, which has a real tactile feel. I feel it's as authentic as possible; I love the way the grain feels. — Ryan Coogler

Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level. — Robert Moog

Lord, keep my memory green. — Charles Dickens

I'm finishing building a house and setting up a shop to build custom electronical musical instruments. — Robert Moog

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

Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters. — Dallas Willard

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

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. — Robert Moog

My focus was always first and foremost to stop the puck. I never let the other players on the other team get to me. — Andy Moog

There are confirmed stories of people who can break instruments and cause them to fail by walking in a room. I'm the opposite - I can walk into a room and something will work better than it is supposed to. — Robert Moog

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

The mini-Moog was conceived originally as a session musician's axe, something a guy could carry to the studio, do a gig and walk out. — Robert Moog

Effective altruism is an advance in ethical behavior as well as in the practical application of our ability to reason. I have described it as an emerging movement, and that term suggests that it will continue to develop and spread. If it does, then once there is a critical mass of effective altruists, it will no longer seem odd for anyone to regard bringing about "the most good I can do" as an important life goal. If effective altruism does become mainstream, I would expect it to spread more rapidly, for then it will be apparent that it is easy to do a great deal of good and feel better about your life as a result. — Peter Singer

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. — Robert Moog

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. — Robert Moog