Keyboards famous quotes

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

#Play #Piano #Keyboards

I would like to play with electronic keyboards again.
-- Andy Summers

#Play #Keyboards

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

#Guitar #Competition #Keyboards

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

#Track #Keyboards #Way

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

#Play #Keyboards #Funny Music

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

#Boston #Lessons #Keyboards

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

#Funny #Sound #Keyboards

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

#Keys #Wish #Keyboards

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 Beizer

#Sight #Hands #Keyboards

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

#Dark #Keyboards #Intensity

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

#Rays #Keyboards #Rooms

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

#Play #Keyboards #Trumpets

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

#Technology #Order #Keyboards

So, I really don't consider myself a fabulous keyboard player.
-- Geddy Lee

#Player #Keyboards #Fabulous

The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.
-- Geezer Butler

#Black #Albums #Keyboards

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

#Art #Technology #Keyboards

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 #Keyboards

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. Licklider

#Library #Keyboards #Resources

I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.
-- Jeff Ament

#Keyboards #Percussion

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

#Guitar #People #Keyboards

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

#Media #Teeth #Keyboards

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 #Keyboards

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 #Keyboards

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

#Keyboards #Boots #Want

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

#Feelings #Keyboards #Way

Whoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot.
-- Linus Torvalds

#Keys #Eight #Keyboards

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 #Keyboards

Keep your head in the clouds and your hands on the keyboard.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Clouds #Hands #Keyboards

I'm kind of a one-note at a time, one finger keyboard player.
-- Matt Sharp

#Player #Keyboards #Kind

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

#Keyboards #Instruments

The most exciting mobile trend is full Qwerty keyboards. I'm sorry, it really is. I'm not making this up.
-- Mike Lazaridis

#Sorry #Keyboards #Trends

My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness. It's quiet.
-- Neil Gaiman

#People #Darkness #Keyboards

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 #Keyboards #Canvas

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 #Keyboards #Said

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

#Cash #Keyboards #World

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 #Keyboards #Firsts

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.
-- Timbaland

#Kids #Keyboards #Sound

You just can't be good in bed anymore. You have to be good at the keyboard too.
-- Xaviera Hollander

#Women #Keyboards #Bed

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 #Keyboards #Messages

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

#Rap #Hook #Keyboards

I'm a bit of a gunner on the QWERTY keyboard.
-- Jay Watson

#Keyboards #Gunners #Bits

Just moving one keyboard or synth is a pain in the ass.
-- Prefuse 73

#Pain #Moving #Keyboards

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 #Keyboards

I don't like sitting at a keyboard.
-- Owsley Stanley

#Sitting #Keyboards

There is nothing like having your hands on a keyboard. Or an acoustic piano. Those are the things you can't really replace.
-- Geoff Downes

#Hands #Piano #Keyboards

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. Gimple

#Writing #Keyboards #Losing

I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.
-- John Carpenter

#Writing #Play #Keyboards