Quotes XII : Bob Moog

" The synthesizer was always a source of new sounds that musicians could use to expand the range of possibilities. "

Robert (Bob) Moog





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*Quote found on http://voltagecontrol.blogspot.com/

Quotes XI : Kraftwerk

"We are not entertainers, we are sound scientists."

Kraftwerk 


http://kraftwerk.com/
Kling Klang Machine:
 http://kraftwerk.com/KKM/kkm.html
(also available as iPhone app)

- Kraftwerk recently launched their official Twitter account @Kraftwerk

Quotes X : Bernie Worrell

" I talk by playing, not by words..."

Bernie Worrell  Musician, Keyboardist, Composer, Producer, best known as a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic

Quotes IX : Jean-Michel Jarre

" I think that you have to seriously have fun, or taking serious things in a light way... and obviously for me before all, music is made of fun and pleasure and excitement. "

Jean-Michel Jarre  Composer, musician, artist, producer

(from WikiQuotes)

Quotes VIII : Karlheinz Stockhausen

" ...being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore. "

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Composer
( 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007 )

Quotes VII : Herbie Hancock

" Creativity shouldn't be following ratio, it should be the other way around. "

Herbie Hancock - musician, composer, bandleader

Quotes VI : Brian Eno

" As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me."

Brian Eno / Producer, musician, songwriter, artist

Quotes V : Alan Pearlman

"The electronic instrument's value is chiefly as a novelty. With greater attention on the part of the engineer to the needs of the musician, the day may not be too remote when the electronic instrument may take its place ... as a versatile, powerful, and expressive instrument."

Alan Pearlman wrote this in 1948... 21 years later he founded ARP Instruments Inc.

Quotes IV : Wendy Carlos

"A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art."

Wendy Carlos

http://wendycarlos.com/

Quotes III : Robert Moog

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

Robert (Bob) Moog

Quotes II : Tom Rhea

" Sound is sound. There is no such thing as an 'artificial' sound - only sound or silence.
A synthesized sound is not a replacement for a 'real' sound; all sounds are real "

Dr. Tom Rhea - Electronic music historian

Quotes I : Edgar Varèse

"I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm."

Edgard Varèse