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I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang. -- Jeff Ament
I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too. -- Corey Haim
The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work. -- Geezer Butler
It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards. -- Andy Summers
I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards. -- Caroline Corr
I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards. -- Dick Dale
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
Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together, though they also had regular jobs because they had kids and stuff like that. -- Caroline Corr
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
For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion. -- Dweezil Zappa
I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards. -- Andy Summers
I'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I've brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards. -- Phil Collins
I would like to play with electronic keyboards again. -- Andy Summers
Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play. -- Joseph Goebbels
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards. -- Brian May
When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube. -- Clifford Stoll
You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard. -- Pharrell Williams
I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park. -- Mike Shinoda
Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel. -- Mitch Kapor
I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating plastic broccoli. -- Keith Jarrett
How about keyboards in your mouth? How fast can you type with your tongue? People will think you're just masticating, when you're really talking to your girlfriend. -- Nolan Bushnell
The bass should be the note of the bass drum, and then you've got the engine of the band that everything else builds on. Everything else, the guitar, the keyboards, is a colour. -- Suzi Quatro
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
My only real hobby is playing music. I write a lot of music on guitar and keyboards and hope one day to make a record or maybe even write the score for a film. -- Graeme Base
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
Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options. -- Nathan Myhrvold
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 have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way. -- Mick Ralphs
All my writing, I always do it in the studio, 'cause everything sounds good. The piano's there, the keyboards; if you want to put strings on something... And everything sounds good when it's in the cans; it sounds killer. -- Zakk Wylde
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 didn't know anything about music when I started a band. I barely knew how to play a guitar. I didn't know how to produce records. I learned how to play bass guitar and keyboards in Rilo Kiley. I picked up a lot from my collaborators. -- Jenny Lewis
The rest of the band were basically friends, So it was me following them around and begging them to let me be in their band for two or three years. And they finally let me in on the harmonica, actually, and then the keyboards, and finally the guitar. -- Jonny Greenwood
One of the things that make Liars so fascinating after five albums, each one so completely different from the others, is that even though they play around with all the classic tropes of art-damaged angst-noise perv-rock, they exude a totally cheery and boyish enthusiasm onstage, goofing around with their keyboards and beatboxes. -- Rob Sheffield
Music has always been in my family, but it was mainly keyboards. I learned to play classical piano, but when I first heard the amazing bass guitar of James Jamerson, who played on all the big Motown hits of the '60s and '70s, I knew bass guitar was my instrument. -- Suzi Quatro
My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way. -- Jay Kay
The problem is that once I start on a song and get a rough idea of where I might go with an arrangement, I try dozens, sometimes hundreds, of different things on a song. The bass, the backing guitars, the lead guitars, the keyboards. It's a long process. It's like 100 steps forward and 99 steps back. -- Tom Scholz
If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I've never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page. -- Paul Auster
My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness. It's quiet. -- Neil Gaiman
I just use Logic, so I need to get more keyboards and gear. I need to get my Korg. -- Ryan Hemsworth
The most exciting mobile trend is full Qwerty keyboards. I'm sorry, it really is. I'm not making this up. -- Mike Lazaridis
I've always been a bit wary of keyboards because there's an invisibility to it - you're not really hitting anything. -- Feist
So I'm in the library, and I have keyboards out and my headphones out. Everybody's like, "Mike are you making beats right now?" and I'm like, "Yeah... sorry!" -- Mike Posner
For the millions of us who live glued to computer keyboards at work and TV monitors at home, food may be more than entertainment. It may be the only sensual experience left. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
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
The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them. -- Gary Wright
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

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