Musical Technology Quotes

I lived at the greatest time in the history of mankind to be a musician.

There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it's still quite a long way off.

We forget to thank the scientists that began these musical inventions and systems. The guy that invented the phonograph and gramophone - Thomas Edison!

All music is based in one way or the other, or influenced through the ages, on technology.

I contend that if it wasn't for Jimi, the gadgets we use for electric guitars now wouldn't have happened. He was an inventor, in a sense - as well as being great artist.

The synth helped us in that it meant you didn't have to be a traditional four-piece band and basically, you didn't have to work too hard.

I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.

Synthesizers can be programmed with more imagination than a real, 'human' performance. It's a joyful thing.

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.