By The Time I Got

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.

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

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.

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

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.