Top 125 Keyboard Quotes

For me, the keyboard is always an additional sound to the piano. Piano is the main instrument; I can’t go anywhere without acoustic piano. It’s been my best friend since I was 6 years old.

Somewhere around the fifth, sixth album, we got this little formula together where we knew how to record Too $hort songs. You need the bassline, a good drum pattern, call in the keyboard, the guitars – it’s just a way we mixed it all together.

I would like to play with electronic keyboards again.

I think… part of life skills is also socialising… I think many people make the mistake of not going out… You can spend a little bit too much time with your nose in your book or with your fingers on a keyboard, and you miss out.

Behind the keyboard, it doesn’t matter that physically my body doesn’t work properly.

I have some good books of Bach keyboard music transcribed for guitar, and there’s always a nylon-string guitar hanging on the wall in my house and a bunch of classical guitar books to grab. I kind of do that just for fun.

It’s been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

I never had any plans to become a producer when I was a kid. I wanted to be a DJ, like most other kids at the time. Then my mum bought me a Casio keyboard and I started to sample sounds that I liked.

I felt that by the late ’90s, I’d gone as far as I could with the keyboard.

Mike is a genius guitar player and keyboard player. I realized that, with this group, I just joined Mike Keneally’s band!

Technology means the kind of music you can make on your own if you’ve got an imagination is amazing. It’s crazy that I can sit with a Mac and a keyboard and a mic and create a symphony.

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.

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.

I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the brass and woodwinds – but only well enough to teach them. If you put a violin in front of me, you wouldn’t say, ‘My God, that guy can play.’ It’d probably sound more like Jack Benny.

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.

I don’t focus on one thing. I play guitar and bass and keyboards and drums, but I never stay on anything long enough to become a specialist at it.

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.

I’ve been writing music since I was a teenager. I play keyboards. I’m not much of a player, but I can write. That will come along. I’d like to do a musical.

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.

Horns really make a good band. They always create excitement when it’s needed. They give the music a broader spread. It doesn’t have to be all guitars and keyboards all the time.

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.

I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.

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.

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.

You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.

I may be taking a different approach, being a guy leading a band with a trombone, but if you take that out of it and put in a guitar or keyboard, it would be considered funk-rock music.

That’s really important in a producer – a producer that can step up and play a keyboard, play a bass, play a guitar, and help you with things instead of just saying, ‘I think this could be better.’

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.

It’s the only thing that allowed me to win so many championship fights and allowed me to put up with the bigotry of the media, the keyboard warriors, the critics. I’ve endured it all because, spiritually, I am buoyant, alive.

I don’t write directly on to the computer because I don’t think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think better looking down holding a pen. And the concentration quotient of pen and paper is higher than when I’m moving words around on screen.

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.

I have a church background. I’ve been playing piano and keyboard and organ all my life in church.

If you look at iPod, iPod wasn’t viewed as a success, but today it’s viewed as an overnight success. The iPhone was the same way. People were writing about there’s no physical keyboard. Obviously nobody would want it.

My typical Saturday night is a great solo dinner at one of my favorite restaurants. I like to talk to the restaurant staff while I eat, then come home, finish up some work until midnight, and then play the keyboard until I’m ready to sleep.

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.

Never angrily rant into your web cam. While smashing a keyboard in half over a game of ‘World of Warcraft’ may seem totally justified in your head, to the rest of the known universe you look like a raging psychopath.

I compose, produce, arrange – I don’t just perform. I’m playing keyboards, playing bass, doing everything.

I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I’ve played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.

I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I’d never leave my keyboard.

Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there’s no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.

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.

I had this weird fetish for making the guitar sound like it wasn’t a guitar to try and trick people into actually thinking it was a keyboard. I don’t know why that was such an obsession, why I didn’t just get a keyboard. I guess it was because I had no money.

The only time that I really go on Twitter is to promote, because what sucks is there’s some weird trolling going around. Even if you are well-intentioned, there’s some mean people behind a keyboard.

It’s disgusting eating over a keyboard.

I think it’s pretty pointless, my children learning to use a keyboard – we will just talk to our computers. Why would we not?

I use Logic or Reason and a midi keyboard for beats. If it’s gonna have all live instruments in it, I’ll probably use Pro Tools and have the band lay stuff down.

I can play just about any keyboard but I can’t read or write a note.

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.

By the time Guns n’ Roses spent 28 months from 1991 to 1993 touring the ‘Use Your Illusion’ albums, the tour staff sometimes approached 100 people. We were carrying not only backup girl singers, a horn section, and an extra keyboard player, but also chiropractors, masseuses, a singing coach, and a tattoo artist.

People can say some extraordinary things when they’re hiding behind a keyboard.

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.

You can be many miles away and press a button on a keyboard, and it can cause devastation.

I play keyboards and sing. I’ve written a couple of songs too.

I play the keyboard, piano – I like making beats.

Life is too sweet and too short to express our affection with just our thumbs. Touch is meant for more than a keyboard.

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.