Keyboard Players Quotes

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

  Matt Sharp

  Player, Keyboards, Kind

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• Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

  Tom Lehrer

  Life, Music, Play

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• When you play, never mind who listens to you.

  Robert Schumann

  Music, Play, Piano

  Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.10

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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, Keyboards, Canvas

  FaceBook post by Pharrell Williams from Apr 10, 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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• I've always been into guitars. We want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John.

  Noel Gallagher

  Player, Guitar, Looks

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

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• So, I really don't consider myself a fabulous keyboard player.

  Geddy Lee

  Player, Keyboards, Fabulous

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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'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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• I think I'm a very poor piano player.

  Ray Manzarek

  Player, Thinking, Piano

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• I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.

  Geddy Lee

  True Love, Writing, Player

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• Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I was the keyboard player. I was interested in how the instruments worked and the theory behind playing with them.

  Brian McKnight

  School, Player, Band

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• I think that the most significant, guiding principle was that we wanted to return to a three-piece live form, whereas we became a four-piece for the last record because the songs had more extensive arrangements and we needed a keyboard player to pull off a lot of those songs. We missed the energy, and more push-and-pull of the three-piece.

  Chris Cain

  Song, Player, Thinking

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• People say I seem very negative about new music - well, if somebody asks me what I think of Keane, I'll tell 'em. I don't like 'em. I'll obviously take it a step too far and grossly insult the keyboard player's mam or summat, but I'm afraid that's just me.

  Noel Gallagher

  Thinking, Player, People

  "Who wants to be a drug addict at 41?". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2008.

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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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• 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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