Keyboards Quotes - Page 5

• About 70 percent of everything is really sketched out on my keyboard beforehand, because I do want accidents to happen in the studio.

  Scott Walker

  Want, Happens, Percent

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I'm writing a lyric, I totally forget about the music. I'm just looking at the lyric and thinking about it almost as a separate entity. And then I'll go to my keyboard with all the lyrics printed out and try to think of how to make this a complete musical thing. I've got a very basic keyboard with some presets.

  Scott Walker

  Writing, Thinking, Musical

  Interview with Erik Morse, believermag.com. July 1, 2013.

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• I drink tea pretty much continuously at a rate of around 1 imperial pint/hour, which sort of enforces screen/keyboard breaks.

  Charles Stross

  Tea, Drink, Hours

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

  Charles Stross

  Couple, Hands, Days Off

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• It can't be any new note. When you look at the keyboard, all the notes are there already. But if you mean a note enough, it will sound different. You got to pick the notes you really mean!

  Thelonious Monk

  Mean, Sound, Different

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• 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, Program

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• Allow some warm-up time each day to stimulate your creative flow. A pianist does keyboard exercises. A gymnast stretches. An artist needs to loosen up, too. It takes a few minutes to shift from the real world into a creative mode.

  Nita Leland

  Real, Exercise, Artist

  Nita Leland (2006). “The New Creative Artist”, p.14, North Light Books

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• Twiddle-twiddle away at my softly clicky keyboard for a while, making twiddly adjustments all along- and then print what I have twiddled. Glare at the printout and snarl and curse and scribble almost illegibly all over it with a ballpoint pen. Go back to the machine and enter the scribbles. Repeat this procedure until I hate the very meaning of every word I know.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Hate, Machines, Scribbles

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• It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys.

  Isaac Asimov

  Ambition, Keys, Two

  Isaac Asimov (2002). “It's Been a Good Life”, Pyr Books

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• To all my gentle readers who have treated me with love for over 30 years, I must say farewell. It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys, but that's not the way it worked out. I have had a long and happy life and I have no complaints about the ending, thereof, and so farewell - farewell.

  Isaac Asimov

  Farewell, Ambition, Happy Life

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

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• It grabs me, but not as much as it grabs some of the other people that rave about them. With the Black Keys, I'm missing crescendos with the sax, keyboard or guitar solo. It never comes to me. All my favorite music is rife with crescendo and I'm not hearing enough with them. If you can get the Black Keys to hear this, tell them I offer my crescendo guitar anytime they desire it.

  Ted Nugent

  Keys, Guitar, People

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• I am very aware of the fact that it's highly unlikely anyone will write an article via their mobile phone. I've done it, but it's painful. And it's not just about the small keyboard and the small screen - though that's awful. It's the emotional experience of writing an article.

  Sue Gardner

  Writing, Emotional, Phones

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• When you think about it, there's no way to input things into a computer. It's all... the holes only go out, right? Like you can plug a keyboard or a mouse in but that's a trick because the computer thinks the inputs are outputs. That's a programmer trick, basically magic. The key to the future is to make holes that go in too.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Thinking, Keys, Magic

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• 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, Losing, Scene

  Source: collider.com

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• 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, Empowered

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• Just moving one keyboard or synth is a pain in the ass.

  Prefuse 73

  Pain, Moving, Ass

  Interview with Jamin Warren, pitchfork.com. February 20, 2005.

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• I either write songs on guitar, or... I don't ever have a keyboard with me, but like, my keyboard on the laptop.

  Jay Watson

  Song, Writing, Guitar

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.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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• 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, Acoustics

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• In high school I was in a band called Goodfight, but it was more me running around on stage. It was very punk inspired. Then I started to get into indie-rock and older music and decided I wanted to write my own stuff. I quit the band. Around 16 or 17, I started recording myself at home on keyboard and piano.

  Angel Olsen

  Running, Home, Writing

  "Angel Olsen is in complete control". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, www.chicagotribune.com. September 21, 2016.

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• I got a new 4-track cassette recorder a year or so after high school. For a while I would just stare at it thinking, how am I going to do this if I don't play guitar or keyboards? How am I going to write and record a song if I don't know how to play any instruments? I mean, I played the violin, but I didn't know anything about how to work a 4-track.

  Petra Haden

  Song, Writing, School

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We can acquire as much knowledge as we would like with a few taps on our keyboard. That's extremely valuable, but wisdom comes again from some different dimension.

  Roger Housden

  Dimensions, Different, Valuable

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I can't really deal with buttons. And that's what I keep saying, "Okay, I can't push buttons, because that means I have to take my hands off the keyboard or the buttons or whatever. Don't you understand!" .

  Pauline Oliveros

  Mean, Hands, Buttons

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• A mouse and a keyboard is not a good performance instrument.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Instruments, Mice, Performances

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• For instance, I assume those "carrots" we have on our keyboards were there originally to express "greater than" and "less than." Then they were adopted by coders, and now they show up all the time in the way email addresses are constructed. At least I think that's what happened.

  Michael Bierut

  Thinking, Addresses, Way

  Source: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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