Keyboards Quotes - Page 3

• The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.

  Hans Zimmer

  Writing, Ideas, Long

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

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• The world doesn’t fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life….every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood…. Your job is to marshal the talent you do have and find people who believe in your work. What’s important, finally, is that you create, and that those creations define for you what matters most, that which cannot be extinguished even in the face of silence, solitude, and rejection.

  Betsy Lerner

  Jobs, Believe, Writing

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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

  Air, Canvas, Paint

  FaceBook post by Pharrell Williams from Apr 10, 2012

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• Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Running, Writing, Legs

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.298, Pan Macmillan

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• Keep your head in the clouds and your hands on the keyboard.

  Marissa Meyer

  Clouds, Hands, Head In The Clouds

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• I have lots of notebooks around, because one great advantage of writing by hand-in addition to how much it slows you down-is that it makes me write at the speed that I feel I should be composing, rather than faster than I can think, which is what happens to me on any keyboard.

  John Irving

  Notebook, Writing, Thinking

  "John Irving Always Knows Where He's Going". "Morning Edition" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. November 3, 2015.

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• We don't have a lot of time to practice, but yeah, we need to find a keyboard over there, or else I need to bring one. We're intending to do so. I don't want to let you down and say that we 100% are, but yes, we're intending to do so.

  Theresa Wayman

  Practice, Needs, Want

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• I have an elaborate wind-down ritual, which combines reading, ESPN, movies, and jamming the blues on my keyboard. There's still a part of me that's a little kid who is psyched because I no longer have a bedtime!

  Tohoru Masamune

  Reading, Kids, Wind

  "Tohoru Masamune: Pursuing Dreams and Embracing Chaos". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I've always been a bit wary of keyboards because there's an invisibility to it - you're not really hitting anything.

  Feist

  Hitting, Invisibility, Bits

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

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• I met designers that are in the business for ten years in the movies, and their biggest complaint is things don't look anything like they were designed. Look at my drawing! But nobody ever sees the drawing, that's the thing. So I knew right from the beginning that I would design everything in 3D on my computer, and those models literally went to the machines. So every little radius on most of the vehicles you see there, I built with my mouse and keyboard.

  Daniel Simon

  Years, Drawing, Design

  "Interview with Tron: Legacy vehicle concept designer Daniel Simon". Interview with Toni-Marie Ippolito, www.tribute.ca. December 1, 2010.

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• After I write a sequence, I just open the script and then sit at the piano keyboard and "play" the script. (And because I also draw and paint, sometimes I sketch out the action as well.)

  Jeff Britting

  Writing, Piano, Play

  Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com

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• With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on the inside of the piano, if you have at your disposal an exploded keyboard.

  John Cage

  Piano, Numbers, Musician

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• I had more of a vocal range. If you wanted to play a keyboard song, like "Love Walks In," I can do it.

  Sammy Hagar

  Song, Play, Like Love

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• The guy who sits at the keyboard and types is so much smarter than I am. I think I got into writing so that I could spend as much time with that guy as possible.

  Marc Guggenheim

  Writing, Thinking, Guy

  "I'm Marc Guggenheim, Writer and Executive Producer of Arrow, and This Is How I Work". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. August 31, 2016.

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• For me, it's never been an ego situation where I have been "I'm the boss; expletive you." It's always been a situation where someone comes to me and says "I can't tolerate working with you anymore" and I would admit sometimes I wouldn't blame them for that. But I also sometimes think I'm not that difficult to figure out. I don't really know what has driven people to be so angry and bitter - people like my old keyboard player Pogo, who I've known for such a long time. I feel bad for him, but there are grievances with everything.

  Marilyn Manson

  Player, Thinking, Long

  Source: archive.azcentral.com

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• The program I use is called MED Soundstudio. It's basically a column of numbers that relate to pitch, duration, the type of sound. If I want to play a chord, I have to press keys on a keyboard - like a computer keyboard, on my Amiga - that relate to sharps and flats, note by note.

  Max Tundra

  Play, Numbers, Keys

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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 Matsumoto

  Writing, Messages, Email

  "The Philosophy of Ruby". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. September 29, 2003.

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• 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

  Mind, Firsts, Computer

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Usually now a song starts just in my head with a melody or a lyric idea coming first.Then typically I'll go to a guitar, unless it's a instrumental then I'll usually build it on a keyboard instrument.

  Eliot Lewis

  Song, Ideas, Guitar

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• Even when I can play Europe's most precious keyboard, to have to listen to people who don't understand, or do not want to understand, and who are incapable of grasping my intent, whatever I play, does surely forfeit my lust for playing at all.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Europe, Play, People

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• It was a matter of not seeing the woods for the trees. Glorious songs have been in Ireland forever, but a lot of these were so popular they were sung only by drunken men at weddings. They didn't have any regard for the song at all. So, I picked out 14 songs that I had grown up with, songs with great melodies. After 35 years as a songwriter, I appreciate the value of a good melody because I know how hard it is to write one. So I presented them in a new way, with piano, keyboards, strings, and a contemporary rhythm section. I just treated the melody with a bit of dignity and a bit of style.

  Phil Coulter

  Song, Writing, Men

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• Something in the movement of fingers on the keyboard enhances thought. Fingers pull your thoughts forward. Fingers are in some way an extension of your brain, with a lot of cortex associations at their trigger. Get them going!

  Josip Novakovich

  Brain, Association, Way

  Josip Novakovich (2008). “Fiction Writer's Workshop”, p.6, Writer's Digest Books

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• Of course I knew The Band's Canadian keyboard player, the late Richard Manuel, but I didn't play that night because I was there as a guest with my record executives. People ask, "why didn't you play?" If I had known I was going to be playing then I would have been prepared for it.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Player, Night, People

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• I love jazz. I still do. Dave Brubeck and Stan Getz are so good. I took a notification course in Jazz Orchestration. It wasn't a grandiose as you'd think but I did have to to go to Los Angeles to do it and get an understanding of the keyboard because the keyboard became my tool and I used it a lot in transposing and composing. All the flats and time values. I spent a year doing that because in those days you had to be able to write your own music and read sheets.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• If you truly are going to be a writer, there must be somewhere within you the drive, the desire, to put pen to paper, fingers to keyboard, and actually write.

  Kaye Dacus

  Writing, Desire, Paper

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