Keyboards Quotes - Page 10

• Now I see that all relationships are virtual, even those that take place in person. Whether we use our bodies or a keyboard, it all comes down to two minds crying out from their solitude.

  Roger Ebert

  Relationship, Two, Solitude

  "You are stronger than you think you are", www.indiewire.com. November 16, 2010.

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• Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.

  Keith Jarrett

  Keys, Play, Sound

  "Keith Jarrett, Part II: The Q&A". Interview with David Shenk, www.theatlantic.com. October 13, 2009.

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• 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, Should

  Google+ blog, plus.google.com. June 23, 2013.

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• The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.

  Chris Cleave

  Bad Day, Giving, Lazy

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• I just started doing this one-man show, and I wanted to be able to score it, so I bought a guitar, and got a keyboard and got a harmonica. I remember when I started that I didn't understand why a harmonica had different letters on them.

  Demetri Martin

  Men, Guitar, Different

  Source: www.isthmus.com

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• I change my keyboard between every book. I usually shop around. I'm very passionate about the physical feel of pressing the keys. It's got to have the right springiness. I tend to find the built-in keys very unsatisfying, the keys are low-profile and don't really do anything - I want it to feel like I'm typing.

  John Green

  Book, Keys, Passionate

  Interview with Jade Chang, www.goodreads.com. December, 2012.

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• The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.

  Donal Henahan

  Art, Long, Legacy

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• I do get labeled as a guitar band, but the only reason is that's the instrument I know how to play. The guitar is serving the song I'm writing. But I'm learning how to play keyboard better now so that'll start serving the song as well; it'll be another flavor. I'm not going to switch it up with big, fat drum machine beats and real swoopy synths, but yeah...

  Mac DeMarco

  Song, Real, Writing

  Source: www.self-titledmag.com

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• The first reason why I started to use the [electric] keyboard is because I really like the bending sound of the guitar and bass player. I can't bend the piano sound. I really like the feel behind it. I feel it adds flavour and character to my music.

  Hiromi

  Character, Player, Guitar

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• The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he's a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file; I don't know what instrument he was playing them on; I know nothing about his section of the sound of the piece, and then when I'm sitting on trains I do a lot of train travel I turn them into pieces of music. And I love to do that; it's my favorite hobby.

  Brian Eno

  Brother, Favorite Hobby, Games

  Interview by Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key.

  Scott Adams

  Life, Wisdom, Keys

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• There’s nothing more humbling than seeing your best quotes in a list, and thinking they could have been written by a coma patient with a keyboard and spasms.

  Scott Adams

  Thinking, Lists, Patient

  Dilbert Blog, Quotes, February 26, 2007.

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• Unless you turn out to be a shining and ballistic genius, then, trust me, if you want to do this then you're going to be spending the next few years doing little else. This is a thing you do at a table with a notebook and a keyboard, and there's no getting away from it. Put in the hours. You don't get to turn off 'being a writer.'

  Warren Ellis

  Notebook, Years, Shining

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• I was writing tons of music in my spare time. I might be on location somewhere, and I'd go home and I'd have my guitar and my little keyboard or something and write music. Or if I was at home, on my piano. I've always been a late bloomer with a lot of things, just in general, so I think this was something that needed to come to fruition in this particular way.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Home, Writing, Thinking

  "Zooey Deschanel thrilled to be in She & Him". Interview with Marc Hirsh, www.today.com. Marc 18, 2008.

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• I'm not musically trained and I'm not all these other things. I'm creative with a keyboard and a drum machine, but I can't really make these perfect minimal musical executions - all the things that would be nice with all these refined poems.

  Doseone

  Nice, Perfect, Creative

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2005.

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• Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Eye, Color, Piano

  Quoted in K C Lindsay and P Vergo (eds and trans) Kandinsky: Complete Writings on Art (1982).

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• Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of "somedays." Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all, it will leak out despite your failure to pay attention in English.

  Glen Cook

  Writing, Ideas, Giving

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• This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspiring, Writing, Creativity

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