Keyboards Quotes - Page 8

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

  Brian May

  Writing, Guitar

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I'm a bit of a gunner on the QWERTY keyboard.

  Jay Watson

  Gunners, Bits

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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