1.
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
2.
I'm kind of a one-note at a time, one finger keyboard player.
Matt Sharp
3.
You just can't be good in bed anymore. You have to be good at the keyboard too.
Xaviera Hollander
4.
You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.
Pharrell Williams
5.
I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard.
Bill Joy
6.
Keep your head in the clouds and your hands on the keyboard.
Marissa Meyer
7.
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
8.
But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?
Mick Ralphs
9.
So, I really don't consider myself a fabulous keyboard player.
Geddy Lee
10.
Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation,
but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head.
Frederic Chopin
11.
You could make your fingers reproduce exactly what you felt, if you really worked at it. I achieved it, not only spending a lot of time at the keyboard but finding ways I could make my fingers reproduce my deepest feelings. It meant, when you hit a note with a finger, you sank into that note all the way to the bottom of the keyboard until it went pow! Right?
Lennie Tristano
12.
I'm a bit of a gunner on the QWERTY keyboard.
Jay Watson
13.
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
15.
I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.
Mike Shinoda
16.
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.
Timbaland
17.
I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.
Brian May
18.
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
19.
I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.
John Carpenter
20.
It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
Andy Summers
21.
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
22.
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
23.
I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.
Dick Dale
24.
The most exciting mobile trend is full Qwerty keyboards. I'm sorry, it really is. I'm not making this up.
Mike Lazaridis
25.
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
26.
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
27.
The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.
Geezer Butler
28.
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
29.
Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.
Aphex Twin
30.
My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness. It's quiet.
Neil Gaiman
31.
I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.
Jeff Ament
32.
For instance, I assume those "carrots" we have on our keyboards were there originally to express "greater than" and "less than." Then they were adopted by coders, and now they show up all the time in the way email addresses are constructed. At least I think that's what happened.
Michael Bierut
33.
I would like to play with electronic keyboards again.
Andy Summers
34.
We have all been empowered by the web: everyone with a keyboard can now effectively broadcast to a national audience. In a sense, it puts each of us on the same footing as the major media conglomerates, except for AOL, who now apparently own all our thoughts and teeth.
John Hodgman
35.
Everyone wants to be an "expert" on social media and share their opinion behind the keyboard.
Ashley Graham
36.
Writing is not just the technical act of your fingers on the keyboard. Writing is living.
Melissa Marr
37.
When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.
Clifford Stoll
38.
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
39.
Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
41.
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
42.
Whoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot.
Linus Torvalds
43.
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
44.
A mouse and a keyboard is not a good performance instrument.
Pauline Oliveros
45.
Just moving one keyboard or synth is a pain in the ass.
Prefuse 73
46.
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
47.
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
48.
Something in the movement of fingers on the keyboard enhances thought. Fingers pull your thoughts forward. Fingers are in some way an extension of your brain, with a lot of cortex associations at their trigger. Get them going!
Josip Novakovich
49.
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.
50.
I drink tea pretty much continuously at a rate of around 1 imperial pint/hour, which sort of enforces screen/keyboard breaks.
Charles Stross