Keyboards Quotes - Page 2

• I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way.

  Mick Ralphs

  Writing, Guitar, Years

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• I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.

  Corey Haim

  Song, Couple, Play

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• Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Peace, War, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Internet, I'm trying to point out, is a kooks' paradise. Anybody with a keyboard and a modem can spread fear, loathing, and just plain asinine ideas among hundreds of thousands of people with the click of a button. Discouraging, but true.

  David F. Emery

  Ideas, People, Trying

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• Error, no keyboard. Press F1 to continue.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Life, Errors

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• Here's the first major lesson: Writing is not an activity. It's not something you sit down at the keyboard, and just start doing. That's called 'typing.' Typing is an activity ... Writing is a process. And if you start thinking of it as a process, life gets so much easier.

  Jeff Bollow

  Writing, Thinking, Lessons

  Jeff Bollow (2004). “Writing FAST: How to Write Anything with Lightning Speed”, p.15, Embryo Films

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• I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.

  Ray Manzarek

  Player, Thinking, Piano

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• The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice.

  Bill Budge

  Sitting, Use, Novices

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• When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss.

  Robin Gibb

  Missing You, Writing, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Aphex Twin

  Track, Sound, Way

  "Eponymous Rex". Interview with Marc Weidenbaum, disquiet.com. April 15, 1997.

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• My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way.

  Jay Kay

  Song, Guitar, Scotland

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• I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.

  Alicia Witt

  Music, Song, Writing

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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

  Rays, Rooms, Online

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• 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

  Sweet, Thumbs, Affection

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• I'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I've brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards.

  Phil Collins

  Song, Brother, Writing

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• Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together, though they also had regular jobs because they had kids and stuff like that.

  Caroline Corr

  Mother, Jobs, Father

  "Caroline Corr of The Corrs". Interview with Billy Amendola, www.moderndrummer.com.

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• I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.

  Caroline Corr

  Play, Piano, Band

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.

  Andy Summers

  Guitar, Police, Trying

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• I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.

  Jeff Ament

  Percussion

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• I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.

  Mike Shinoda

  Years, Piano, Parks

  "Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda Rocks on to New Challenge: 'The Raid: Redemption' Film Score (Q&A)" by Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 21, 2012.

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• Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Motivational, Yoga, Imagination

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.37, John Wiley & Sons

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

  Andy Summers

  Guitar, Competition, Serious

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• 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

  Sorry, Play, Moral

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• What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.

  Steve Wozniak

  Running, Games, Play

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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 Ritchie

  Fun, Writing, Film

  "Revolver - Guy Ritchie interview" compiled by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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