I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.
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.
Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.
My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness. It's quiet.
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.
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.
I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.
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.
I would like to play with electronic keyboards again.
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.
I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.
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!"
Writing is not just the technical act of your fingers on the keyboard. Writing is living.
Whoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot.
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.
Life is too sweet and too short to express our affection with just our thumbs. Touch is meant for more than a keyboard.
When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.
Everyone wants to be an "expert" on social media and share their opinion behind the keyboard.
Just moving one keyboard or synth is a pain in the ass.
A mouse and a keyboard is not a good performance instrument.
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.
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.
First of all you are a writer, a writer is what you are, so it doesn't actually stop the moment you leave your desk, your computer, your keyboard, whatever. Something is operating the back of your mind.
About 70 percent of everything is really sketched out on my keyboard beforehand, because I do want accidents to happen in the studio.
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.
