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I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.
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Kids
Building
Instruments
Musical
Electronic
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Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.
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Kids
Baseball
Electronics
Beat
Other Kids
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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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Dad
Appreciate
Thinking
Ties
Wearing
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Everything has some consciousness, and we tap into that. It is about energy at its most basic level.
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Consciousness
Energy
Levels
Basic
Tap
Level
Some
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I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.
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Customers
Musician
Tools
Use
Musicians
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I'm finishing building a house and setting up a shop to build custom electronical musical instruments.
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Finishing
Instruments
Musical
Setting
Build
Custom
Shop
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My transition from scientist to entrepreneur? Some would say that I still haven't made that transition.
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Entrepreneur
Scientist
Transition
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The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.
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Design
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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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Building
Musical
Years
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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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Instruments
Musical
By The Time
Electronic
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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.
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Musician
Session
Axe
Carry
Conceived
Gig
Originally
Studio
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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.
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Opportunity
Driven
Inspire
Thinking
Music Opportunity Me
Composers
Inspires
Interact
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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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Computers
Cat
Invention
Long
Long Time
Long Time Ago
Thinking
Time Long Important
Since
Happen
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
Musicians
The Most Important
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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.
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Music
Firsts
Musician
Order
Worried
Music Never Make
First
First Of All
Replace
Synthesizer
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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.
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Crafts
Knowing
Use
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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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Opportunity
Design
Training
Work Music Opportunity
Musicians
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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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Activity
Doe
Down And
Human Activity
Information
Involving
Machinery
Machines
Pianist
Virtuoso
Performance
Transmitting
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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.
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Instruments
Walking
Opposite
Confirmed
Fail
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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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Music
Easy
Garbage
Remember
Sound
Together
Good Music Always
Good Music Together
Good Always Together
Appears
Days
Good Music
Put
Pail
Sounds
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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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Kitchen
People
Simple
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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.
Robert Moog / Inventor
Projects
Simple
Tubes
Build
Work Simple People
Buy
Hobby
Early
Electronic
Work People Your
Popular
Parts
Table
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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 / Inventor
Design
Details
Done
Electronics
Ingenious
Painting
Simple
Sonnet
Speech
Original
Designs
Effective
Goes
Hidden
Perfectly
Subtleties
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