quotes about Keyboards
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I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.
-- Abbie Cornish -
I would like to play with electronic keyboards again.
-- Andy Summers -
It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
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Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.
-- Aphex TwinSource : "Eponymous Rex". Interview with Marc Weidenbaum, disquiet.com. April 15, 1997.
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I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.
-- Artur Schnabel -
I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.
-- Bernie Worrell -
Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard
-- Bill Bailey -
I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard.
-- Bill Joy -
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One of the saddest sights to me has always been a human at a keyboard doing something by hand that could be automated. It's sad but hilarious.
-- Boris BeizerSource : Boris Beizer (1995). “Black-Box Testing: Techniques for Functional Testing of Software and Systems”, Wiley
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Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.
-- Boris JohnsonSource : "A wise guy playing the fool to win". Sunday Times, July 16, 2000.
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When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.
-- Clifford Stoll -
I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.
-- Dick Dale -
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With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly.
-- Geddy Lee -
So, I really don't consider myself a fabulous keyboard player.
-- Geddy Lee -
The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.
-- Geezer Butler -
I've always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music, not only in recording, but in the keyboard. It's amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form.
-- Geoff Downes -
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It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't.
-- Guy RitchieSource : "Revolver - Guy Ritchie interview" compiled by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.
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It should be possible, in a 'debreviation' mode, to type 'clr' on the keyboard and have 'The Council on Library Resources, Inc.' appear on the display.
-- J. C. R. LickliderSource : Recent advances in display media, Vol. 3, (p. 177), 1982.
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I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.
-- Jeff Ament -
I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard.
-- Jeremy Renner -
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We have all been empowered by the web: everyone with a keyboard can now effectively broadcast to a national audience. In a sense, it puts each of us on the same footing as the major media conglomerates, except for AOL, who now apparently own all our thoughts and teeth.
-- John Hodgman -
I'm a workmanlike writer. I show up every day and treat it like a job. The old rule that writing is like any other job, the first rule is that you must show up. I'm at the keyboard from 9 to 4 every day.
-- Justin Cronin -
Life is too sweet and too short to express our affection with just our thumbs. Touch is meant for more than a keyboard.
-- Kristin Armstrong -
Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.
-- Kristine Kathryn Rusch -
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You could make your fingers reproduce exactly what you felt, if you really worked at it. I achieved it, not only spending a lot of time at the keyboard but finding ways I could make my fingers reproduce my deepest feelings. It meant, when you hit a note with a finger, you sank into that note all the way to the bottom of the keyboard until it went pow! Right?...
-- Lennie Tristano -
Whoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot.
-- Linus Torvalds -
The Human moral keyboard is limited ... there's nothing you can play on it that hasn't been played before. And, my dear Friends, I am sorry to say this, but it has its lower notes.
-- Margaret Atwood -
Keep your head in the clouds and your hands on the keyboard.
-- Marissa Meyer -
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I'm kind of a one-note at a time, one finger keyboard player.
-- Matt Sharp -
But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?
-- Mick Ralphs -
The most exciting mobile trend is full Qwerty keyboards. I'm sorry, it really is. I'm not making this up.
-- Mike LazaridisSource : "RIM chiefs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie's best quotes" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.
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My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness. It's quiet.
-- Neil Gaiman -
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You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.
-- Pharrell Williams -
He started to touch the mechanism under the keyboard, then pulled his hand back with a snap. "Ah," he said. "Must deactivate the security....Turn around, please." "What?" "Turn around, Claire. It's a secure password!" "You have GOT to be kidding." "Why ever would I joke about that? Please turn.
-- Rachel Caine -
Sit me at the keyboard of any computer in the world with access to the Internet, and in just 24 hours I’ll earn at least $24,000 in cash.
-- Robert G. Allen -
First of all you are a writer, a writer is what you are, so it doesn't actually stop the moment you leave your desk, your computer, your keyboard, whatever. Something is operating the back of your mind.
-- Terry Pratchett -
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I never had any plans to become a producer when I was a kid. I wanted to be a DJ, like most other kids at the time. Then my mum bought me a Casio keyboard and I started to sample sounds that I liked.
-- TimbalandSource : "Soundtrack of my life: Timbaland" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2007.
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You just can't be good in bed anymore. You have to be good at the keyboard too.
-- Xaviera Hollander -
Imagine you are writing an email. You are in front of the computer. You are operating the computer, clicking a mouse and typing on a keyboard, but the message will be sent to a human over the internet. So you are working before the computer, but with a human behind the computer.
-- Yukihiro MatsumotoSource : "The Philosophy of Ruby". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. September 29, 2003.
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I like producing beats, and I like rapping, too. I have a program for the PC, and I can hook my keyboard to it.
-- Jamie Waylett -
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I'm a bit of a gunner on the QWERTY keyboard.
-- Jay WatsonSource : Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com
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Just moving one keyboard or synth is a pain in the ass.
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So I'm in the library, and I have keyboards out and my headphones out. Everybody's like, "Mike are you making beats right now?" and I'm like, "Yeah... sorry!"
-- Mike PosnerSource : Source: ca.complex.com
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I don't like sitting at a keyboard.
-- Owsley StanleySource : Source: medium.com
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There is nothing like having your hands on a keyboard. Or an acoustic piano. Those are the things you can't really replace.
-- Geoff DownesSource : Source: www.washingtontimes.com
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It is horrible to sit in front of the keyboard and write those scenes because you're losing too. You lose somebody you enjoy working with.
-- Scott M. GimpleSource : Source: collider.com
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I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.
-- John CarpenterSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.