Moog, Robert Filmography

• Into the Zone: The Story of the Cacophony Society
  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Moog
  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Modulations
  1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Mastering the Theremin
  1995, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
  1994, role: actor , character name: Himself - Inventor of the Moog Synthesizer

Famous quotes by Robert Moog:

"It's certainly more than a technological activity, although we instrument designers certainly use electronic technology as a design tool. But I wouldn't call it an artistic activity. We're toolmakers. Making tools is a craft, maybe even a high craft. I'd say that we are craftsmen rather than artists."

"When I opened the T-burg shop, I thought I was going into the electronic kit business, ... Then I met a composer who wanted to make electronic music on tape. We got together just for fun."

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

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

"To me the synthesizer was always a source of new sounds that musicians could use to expand the range of possibilities for making music."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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