Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bernie Worrell

I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

Jamie Waylett

I like producing beats, and I like rapping, too. I have a program for the PC, and I can hook my keyboard to it.

Bill Bailey

Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard

Charles Stross

I drink tea pretty much continuously at a rate of around 1 imperial pint/hour, which sort of enforces screen/keyboard breaks.

Bill Joy

I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard.

Boris Johnson

Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.

David Bowie

When the musical keyboard was created in the 1970's, you had electronic geeks that had no background in music created these devises and gave them to musicians that had no background in electronics. The result was some of the wierd sounds that came out in the '70s.

Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.

Christine McVie

I was, in essence, boxed in completely by keyboards. That's what was wrong; I was so stacked in with keyboards I never used that no one could ever see me. It was like being in a prison... Mick and I would laugh about it, because he had the same sensation, being stuck behind his drums all night.

Bill Bryson

I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I'm actually quite shy and reserved.

Brian May

I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.

Rob Sheffield

One of the things that make Liars so fascinating after five albums, each one so completely different from the others, is that even though they play around with all the classic tropes of art-damaged angst-noise perv-rock, they exude a totally cheery and boyish enthusiasm onstage, goofing around with their keyboards and beatboxes.

Dick Dale

I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.

Abbie Cornish

I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.

Nolan Bushnell

How about keyboards in your mouth? How fast can you type with your tongue? People will think you're just masticating, when you're really talking to your girlfriend.

Paul Auster

If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I've never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.

There are attachments you can put on the back of keyboards that will record keystrokes and send them to an off-site printer.

Keyboards are a lunch counter for germs. We turn them over in a lot of studies and we are amazed at what comes out of a keyboard.

Richie McDonald

A producer's job is to find the songs and figure out how he wants to put everything together. But Justin had also the luxury of saying, 'OK, I want the record to sound this way.' He knew exactly how to make it sound that way and not depend on an engineer to do it. So right down the line from guitar sounds to the keyboards -- everything -- he knew exactly what he wanted to do.

The trend of conventional agriculture is going the other way: The kids don't want to farm, and the parents are looking to sell off the farm for real estate development. But then you have this significant counter-movement of people giving up their keyboards to farm, professionals going back to the land, and younger people getting into organic farming.

Graeme Base

My only real hobby is playing music. I write a lot of music on guitar and keyboards and hope one day to make a record or maybe even write the score for a film.

Artur Schnabel

I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

Dweezil Zappa

For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion.

Clifford Stoll

When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.

Andy Summers

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.

The grant allowed us to purchase six computers, musical keyboards and a projection system, which enables me to work on my laptop and instruct the kids from a screen in front of them.

Mick Ralphs

But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?

Roy Blount, Jr.

Twiddle-twiddle away at my softly clicky keyboard for a while, making twiddly adjustments all along- and then print what I have twiddled. Glare at the printout and snarl and curse and scribble almost illegibly all over it with a ballpoint pen. Go back to the machine and enter the scribbles. Repeat this procedure until I hate the very meaning of every word I know.

Keith Jarrett

I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating plastic broccoli.

Keith Jarrett

Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.

Lily King

I definitely feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard.

Terry Pratchett

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.