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"Electronics have programmed the whole society. Electronic music has brainwashed us, and if we don't come to grips with ourselves, we're gonna walk around plugged in! The great musicians who have played the electric guitar- Django Reinhardt, Wes Montgomery, Oscar Moore, Charlie Christian and others- brought us beautiful music. These masters controlled the electronics, made the electronics work for them. We must not be psyched out and think the new sound is really something new. Most musicians haven't done enough research to know that the "new age of electronics" is really something that's been going on for years. All you have to do is trace back to European people like Edgard Varese, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luciano Berio. These people were writing beautiful electronic sounding music back in the 30s. Everyone is getting on the electronic bandwagon, and consequently, pretty soon everything is going to sound alike. When a man runs a vacuum cleaner, he can't produce his own touch on that vacuum cleaner because it's an electric thing. It has its own built in sound. What this electronic phase is doing is completely wiping out the identity of anyone playing creative black music (jazz). This is a genocide of the music!" From "Bright Moments"- a bio of Rahsaan Roland Kirk- by Jon Kruth.