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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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"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


"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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