Robert Moog Quotes

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year.

I have a Chamberlain I bought from some surfers in Westwood many years ago. It's an early analog synthesizer; it operates on tape loops. It has 60 voices - everything from galloping horses to owls to rain to every instrument in the orchestra.

I had gotten one of the first Korg synthesizers with 300 presets.

I love my Fender Rhodes. It's been a part of my family since that keyboard came out, and I've had it reworked so that it's in the best condition it's actually ever been in. That is my baby.

To me, the original VCS3 synthesizer is like a Stradivarius.

I've been playing a Fender since 1963, and before that it was my dream guitar. I can't endorse it more than that.

I have been using small teardrop jazz picks since I was, like, 14.

I like a bass drum. A big one.

A young musician needs a powerful laptop and a good analogue synthesiser.

The piano is not really in the language of the 'Game of Thrones' score.

The whole first 100 Wu-Tang songs was made on an ASR-10.

When I was a kid, I played drums, and when I first got a 4-track, I would put down drumbeats and then do the rest of the tracks on top.

When I know it's like a bass song, I gotta go with my SP-1200.

Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument.

The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings.

A piano in the house, when I came home from school and was able to play all these different notes with all theses different sounds, I really found that fascinating.

I have limited interests. I really like all sorts of gear. Guitar gear. Recording gear. Stuff like that. I like music, you know.

51 Martin [guitar] sounded pretty good as new guitar. Martin has several levels of guitars now, and this one is pretty good.

The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.

The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.

There is nothing like having your hands on a keyboard. Or an acoustic piano. Those are the things you can't really replace.

The sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks.

The pedal is the soul of the piano.

I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it 'til my fingers bled.