Keyboards Quotes - Page 4

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

Jobs, Writing, Firsts

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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

Hands, Said, Claire

Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.117, Allison & Busby

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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.

Bill Bryson

Shy, Stories, Natural

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500 dollars? Fully subsidized? With a plan? I said that is the most expensive phone in the world. And it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard. Which makes it not a very good email machine.

Steve Ballmer

Stupid, Iphone, Phones

"FLASHBACK: Steve Ballmer's First Take On The iPhone, January 2007" by Henry Blodget, www.businessinsider.com. Junuary 30, 2010.

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That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.

Julian Casablancas

Guitar, Cheesy, Sound

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...playing with the Barbie-size keyboard on my new phone. Phones are like toys now. They fit in your pocket, light up and vibrate like joy buzzers. Plus, you can get-I mean, "access"-the Internet and find anything you want. Music. Maps. Porn. Anything. If cell phones came with a cigarette dispenser, they'd be the greatest stupid invention ever.

Richard Kadrey

Stupid, Mean, Phones

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I started on drums when I was 13 and played them for two years. Then I went to guitar for a year, played keyboards for a year and a half, and went back to guitar.

Tommy Bolin

Guitar, Years, Two

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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.

David Bowie

Musical, Musician, Sound

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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.

Kage Baker

Flying, Devices, My Own

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Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played the organ.

Al Kooper

Opportunity, Player, Ambitious

"Rock and Roll". "Shakespeares in the Alley", openvault.wgbh.org. September 1995.

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I started playing instruments. Writing didn't come until later. I didn't know how to play a keyboard but I'd listen to hits off the radio, learn them, then my hands would be ready to play.

Amanda Perez

Writing, Play, Hands

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But I always wanted to do a theatrical stuff. But when you're in a metal band of course you're limited because five people in the band, um, you've got no keyboards... you're limited. And I wanted... to go over-the-top, you know. Literally. I wanted to make an album that people would either hate or love.

Arjen Anthony Lucassen

Hate, People, Albums

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Well, I've heard a lot of people, but I think I would say a Brazilian musician named Hermeto Pascoal was one of my biggest influences. Through the years he mastered the keyboards. He use to play the organ Hammond B3, flute, saxophone, percussion and guitar. He is one of the most complete musicians that I ever met. Not too long after we came to the United States, Airto Moreira introduced him to Miles Davis, who recorded three of Hermeto's compositions on his album "Live Evil.

Flora Purim

Thinking, Guitar, Years

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Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation,
but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head.

Frederic Chopin

Musical, Creation, Poor

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All the new songs have been written since the re-issue of Diamond Day. With my first royalties I got a Mac and a little mixer and a keyboard, figured out the basics of a music program, and gradually started to write and record the songs and the arrangements.

Vashti Bunyan

Song, Writing, Issues

Interview with Matthew Murphy, pitchfork.com. October 23, 2005.

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I got to meet a lot of cool people [on the Voice], and my favorite part about the experience was getting to sit around and do little jam sessions in the hotel. We were pretty much in lockdown at the hotel in downtown Los Angeles, and there wasn't much to do. It was interesting to be in a room with someone that was a rapper next to me, a country artist, then you have someone playing a song on the keyboard, and it was just really cool as just a random ensemble.

Curtis Grimes

Country, Song, Rapper

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I do take a computer to do some processing live and I might use a couple of plug-in synthesisers, 'cause obviously you can take quite a lot of power in terms of sound generation on a computer that I can trigger from a couple of keyboards. And it means I don't have to take some of my vintage stuff and have it trashed by various airlines which has happened in the past. But I still take some vintage stuff with me, I'll take that risk because I like using all that stuff.

Thighpaulsandra

Couple, Mean, Past

Source: thequietus.com

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Most composers and arrangers these days use computer programs and keyboards, but I'm one of those dinosaurs that still writes it down on score paper and still dreams it up in his ear first.

Phil Coulter

Dream, Writing, Use

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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 Posner

Sorry, Library, Headphones

Source: ca.complex.com

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Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information.

Douglas Rushkoff

People, Parent, Cards

Douglas Rushkoff (2006). “ScreenAgers: Lessons in Chaos from Digital Kids”, Hampton Press (NJ)

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I started piano lessons at age six but didn't take music seriously until I was a teenager, when I thought about a career in music. I studied classical music, and my instruments were guitar and piano. I played keyboards in bands, and after high school I went to Vienna to study at the Academy of Music. I also became a session player, which culminated in my work with Tangerine Dream.

Paul Haslinger

Dream, Teenager, School

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The truth is, the family is much more creatively nourishing because you're playing on a full keyboard. Whereas when you're single, you're just playing the upbeat jazzy tunes.

Jerry Seinfeld

Tunes, Truth Is, Upbeat

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

Brian May

Writing, Guitar

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Beyond the hype, style, and speculation, the truth is that the iPad is really just another tablet device. A really big PDA, where a touchscreen does what a laptop's keyboard used to do.

Douglas Rushkoff

Ipads, Hype, Pda

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In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing.

Mary Garden

Giving Up, Writing, Track

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