I Had Been Building Electronic Musical Instruments

I'm An Engineer. I See Myself As A Toolmaker And The Musicians Are My Customers... They Use My Tools.

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

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.

Other Kids Went Out And Beat Each Other Up Or Played Baseball, And I Built Electronics.

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.