When I was about 14, I got a tacky keyboard for 250 pounds and put on a drum machine and found I could write a song.
There is nothing like having your hands on a keyboard. Or an acoustic piano. Those are the things you can't really replace.
Because of the nature of my brand, it's so important our readers know it really is me behind my keyboard.
I've noticed a lot of people are very bold and blustery on Twitter because it's easy to do that with the poison keyboard and a hundred and forty characters.
At the keyboard, unrelenting anguish about hurting other people's feelings inhibits spontaneity and constipates creativity.
If I can sit down at my keyboard and have a melody that says something that I can't with words, that's a really beautiful thing.
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.
I have a piano in my office, and sometimes during meetings, I'll sit down and goof on the keyboard a little bit.
I was getting a little bit bullied by guys who thought I was taking their customers, and it got to the point where I was anxious every time I set up my keyboard.
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.
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.
There are keyboard terrorists everywhere who hide behind a veil of anonymity to pursue their vicious slanders.
We're definitely going to get some flak each and every day, whether it's social-media keyboard warriors, or people in person.
I like producing beats, and I like rapping, too. I have a program for the PC, and I can hook my keyboard to it.
I worked out the keyboard parts on the progressive rock classic 'The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway' and somehow managed to play it all on acoustic guitar.
I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.
Whoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot.
I do enjoy my solo time ... I want to stay home and do soundtracks and watch TV in my underwear with a keyboard on my lap and just be a couch potato.
Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.
I love to be able to put my hands on a keyboard, to have a guitar and a bass within reach, as well as all the effects.
I think it's pretty pointless, my children learning to use a keyboard - we will just talk to our computers. Why would we not?
You just can't be good in bed anymore. You have to be good at the keyboard too.
Social media is a weird thing. People have their keyboard and no face... they can say whatever they want.
I think I was told numerous times in the industry that nobody wants to watch a guy on a keyboard.
I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.
I got this cheap guitar, and then I fell in love with it and basically put down the keyboard.
... but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.
Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation,
but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head.
I sang and played keyboard, so I was virtually a statue at the back of the stage. I'm not complaining about that; I enjoyed that role.
The telkine growled and muttered as he tapped on his keyboard. Maybe he was messaging his friends on uglyface.com
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.
I already have it, but a good keyboard is invaluable when you spend a lot of time typing. My favorite one is the ancient IBM Model M I have at home.
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.
I think that cakes should have touches of candy bar in order for it really to hit all those childhood notes on the keyboard.
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.
I'm like soft Ray Manzarek. I think of the keyboard as almost like a bass or a lead.
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.
About 70 percent of everything is really sketched out on my keyboard beforehand, because I do want accidents to happen in the studio.
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.
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.
My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music.
Keep your head in the clouds and your hands on the keyboard.
If there is no music, I will perish. While I have not learnt music, I can play the tune that comes into my head on the keyboard.
When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.
I have to make beats every day. Wherever I go, I got a keyboard waiting for me.
Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard.
Once you begin deliberating about where your fingers are jumping on the piano keyboard, you can no longer pull off the piece.
If you truly are going to be a writer, there must be somewhere within you the drive, the desire, to put pen to paper, fingers to keyboard, and actually write.
I drink tea pretty much continuously at a rate of around 1 imperial pint/hour, which sort of enforces screen/keyboard breaks.
I had more of a vocal range. If you wanted to play a keyboard song, like "Love Walks In," I can do it.
I have a Yamaha YC-45D organ in my studio. It's actually Terry Riley's favorite keyboard, so if you find old clips of him on YouTube, he's usually playing one of these.
In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.
Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information.
With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on the inside of the piano, if you have at your disposal an exploded keyboard.
Writing is not just the technical act of your fingers on the keyboard. Writing is living.
Everyone wants to be an "expert" on social media and share their opinion behind the keyboard.
You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.
I have a church background. I've been playing piano and keyboard and organ all my life in church.
Ad Rock from the Beastie Boys gave me a present: it's a boombox with a keyboard and a beatbox in it. You can't make that up.
And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard.
This site uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience.
More info...