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We're Killers On The Keyboard -- Cyndi Williams Barnier
I love playing. The keyboard is my journal. -- Pharrell Williams
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound. -- Aphex Twin
When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking. -- Sarah Zettel
You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard. -- Pharrell Williams
Life is too sweet and too short to express our affection with just our thumbs. Touch is meant for more than a keyboard. -- Kristin Armstrong
I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else. -- Tony Parsons
I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I'm actually quite shy and reserved. -- Bill Bryson
I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow. -- Vanessa Brown
Beyond the hype, style, and speculation, the truth is that the iPad is really just another tablet device. A really big PDA, where a touchscreen does what a laptop's keyboard used to do. -- Douglas Rushkoff
We think touch is short-term. The mouse and keyboard were stable for 25 years, but I think touch will be stable for 10 years. Post-touch will be stable for a really long time, longer than 25 years. -- Gabe Newell
Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul. -- Wassily Kandinsky
It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't. -- Guy Ritchie
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
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
I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard. -- Jeremy Renner
When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss. -- Robin Gibb
What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself. -- Steve Wozniak
I think that texting and driving is a 100 percent no-go. I think it should be banned everywhere because you cannot be focused on looking ahead, in the mirrors, being aware of what's around you, and to type on a small keyboard and a small screen. -- Allan McNish
Online, you can become much more than a reactive donor - you can become a proactive, strategic, collaborative philanthropist, improving your giving every day by tapping into the wealth of philanthropic resources available at the tap of a keyboard or the click of a mouse. -- Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's largely because I spend my working life staring at a screen and hitting a keyboard, I am trying to cut down on that, not increase it. -- Iain Banks
In my home office, I have two large, 30-inch computer monitors - a Mac and a PC. They share the same mouse and keyboard, so I can type or copy and paste between them. I'll typically do Web stuff on the Mac and e-mail and chat stuff on the PC. -- Matt Mullenweg
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
What I really enjoy about writing for orchestras is realizing that - and it's kind of self-evident - but the fact that they are 48 individuals. It's not, you know, a preset on a keyboard. It's all these people who have opinions and who are making decisions about how to play. -- Jonny Greenwood
What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement. -- Twyla Tharp
Actually, because of new technologies, my full studio is on my laptop. And I have a little keyboard in my bag. I can make everything I do come from my laptop. Even when I go to a big studio, all I do is to plug in my laptops. That's they way I do it. -- David Guetta
I don't like sitting at a keyboard. -- Owsley Stanley
Error, no keyboard. Press F1 to continue. -- Woody Allen
So, I really don't consider myself a fabulous keyboard player. -- Geddy Lee
I was the Specials' founder, main songwriter and keyboard player. -- Jerry Dammers
I'm a bit of a gunner on the QWERTY keyboard. -- Jay Watson
I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats. -- Abbie Cornish
I am not a keyboard person. The mouse is better. -- Jerry Garcia
I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard. -- Bill Joy
I think sitting behind a keyboard can be a security blanket. -- Lia Ices
A mouse and a keyboard is not a good performance instrument. -- Pauline Oliveros
Just moving one keyboard or synth is a pain in the ass. -- Prefuse 73
Keep your head in the clouds and your hands on the keyboard. -- Marissa Meyer
I'm kind of a one-note at a time, one finger keyboard player. -- Matt Sharp
But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know? -- Mick Ralphs
So in one sense you don't have the classic keyboard player in Yes. -- Billy Sherwood
On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key. -- Scott Adams
I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard. -- Kage Baker
That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar. -- Julian Casablancas
Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play. -- Joseph Goebbels
I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note. -- John Carpenter
Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power. -- Boris Johnson
Writing is not just the technical act of your fingers on the keyboard. Writing is living. -- Melissa Marr
Everyone wants to be an "expert" on social media and share their opinion behind the keyboard. -- Ashley Graham
My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music. -- Al Madrigal
I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. -- Bernie Worrell
You just can't be good in bed anymore. You have to be good at the keyboard too. -- Xaviera Hollander
I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play. -- Artur Schnabel
On the traditional computer keyboard, I'm a super-fast touch typist. I mastered touch typing in high school. -- Jeffrey Zeldman
Writing:It starts at the keyboard,and it ends at the far corners of the universe. --Paako -- Vincent Lowry
When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube. -- Clifford Stoll
Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head. -- Frederic Chopin
Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard -- Bill Bailey
Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings. -- Wassily Kandinsky
Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound. -- Aphex Twin
I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar. -- Squarepusher
I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar. -- Squarepusher
I often write in pencil on paper and then type up later. It's much quicker than using a keyboard. -- Catherine Fisher
The telkine growled and muttered as he tapped on his keyboard. Maybe he was messaging his friends on uglyface.com -- Rick Riordan
Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we? -- Paul McCartney
From time to time, I've experimented with sculpture or metal design. It's a good break from just sitting behind the keyboard. -- Chad Hurley
I drink tea pretty much continuously at a rate of around 1 imperial pint/hour, which sort of enforces screen/keyboard breaks. -- Charles Stross
Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information. -- Douglas Rushkoff
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
Whoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot. -- Linus Torvalds
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
I had more of a vocal range. If you wanted to play a keyboard song, like "Love Walks In," I can do it. -- Sammy Hagar
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
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
My brother Carl taught me how to play bass. I'm a self-taught keyboard player, though - I figured out our harmonies at the piano. -- Brian Wilson
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
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
Do Mom and Dad know you're dating a homicidal lunatic? (Madaug) No, and if you tell them, I'll superglue your fingertips to your keyboard. (Eric) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
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
Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can't quite keep up with gravity. -- Rainbow Rowell
Sit me at the keyboard of any computer in the world with access to the Internet, and in just 24 hours I'll earn at least $24,000 in cash. -- Robert G. Allen
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
... 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. -- Betsy Lerner
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. -- J. C. R. Licklider
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. -- Boris Beizer
Before someone will get the guts to monitor your life, he must get the keyboard of humility. To be a humble person, is a priority in leadership! -- Israelmore Ayivor
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
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
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
I definitely feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard. -- Lily King
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
With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly. -- Geddy Lee
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. -- John Cage
I know I love sexy surf guitars, I know I love loud snare. I love really simple repeating bass lines, and I love weird mad scientist keyboard sounds. -- Kathleen Hanna
I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer. -- Alicia Witt
I've learned you can't write on a computer on a bus. It jiggles too much, especially an Apple. The keyboard jiggles around too much, and there are too many typos. -- Stephen Stills
But with carefully chosen keyboard macros to activate it, Mass Copy is quick, convenient, and powerful. Most users who have mastered it depend heavily on it. That certainly includes me. -- Robert Patterson
One of my earliest memories is of bashing the keyboard with my hands, my chubby little baby hands, and I remember the sound hitting my face. It became my toy. -- Christian McKay
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. -- Kaye Dacus
As soon as she sees me she swings forward and hits a key on her keyboard. The music cuts off instantly. Strangely, the silence that follows seems just as loud. -- Lauren Oliver
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
Every so often, I'll get an idea from a dream, but most of the time, ideas come to me while I'm toiling away at the keyboard just like every other writer. -- Jeaniene Frost
Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows. -- Bill Gates
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. -- Gary Hamel
I've always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music, not only in recording, but in the keyboard. It's amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form. -- Geoff Downes
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
There's a clip where he had someone miming me running around from keyboard to keyboard. Oh dear, I am sure a lot of people didn't know what he was going on about. -- Keith Emerson
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. -- Ariel Pink
It's great if you can afford to carry a string section on the road with you, but most people are used to the idea of just a keyboard player creating those string sounds. -- Todd Rundgren
The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice. -- Bill Budge
On an iPhone, you touch on the digital keyboard and you know how the letter pops up and shows up bigger so you're making sure you're touching the correct letter? That's Nokia innovation. -- Stephen Elop
I feel like a novice, just as I felt before I knew anything of the keyboard. It is far too original, and I shall end up not being able to learn it myself. -- Frederic Chopin
At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on the keyboard, I'm spending another hour trying to figure out some tiny detail I need answered. -- Gail Carriger
Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it. -- Honore de Balzac
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. -- Margaret Atwood
The guy who sits at the keyboard and types is so much smarter than I am. I think I got into writing so that I could spend as much time with that guy as possible. -- Marc Guggenheim
After moving to England I did some recording and eventually formed an English band, this was together for quite a few years with only a keyboard replacement. The band had no name, just my name. -- Suzi Quatro
As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop. -- Gustave Flaubert
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

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