Keyboard Skills Quotes

That isn't writing at all, it's typing.

I'm an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.

Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, bet you can't type that.

The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter.

My dream job is being a pianist

I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.

I like Stevie Wonder as my favorite non-pianist pianist. I mean, I shouldn't call him a non-pianist, because he's really a great pianist, but he doesn't feature it that much - he uses his keyboards and his piano technique to support his great songs and so forth, but he can really blow.

No matter who you are or what you plan to do in life, learn to type!

Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.

I play the drums, and I'm trying to teach myself how to play the piano.

One of the features of being a piano player is playing as an accompanist for other people.

I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions.

I had more of a vocal range. If you wanted to play a keyboard song, like "Love Walks In," I can do it.

The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type.

So, I really don't consider myself a fabulous keyboard player.

I've always loved music since I was 11. I used to play keyboard, and I would write music. So since 11, I've been falling in love with music.

I'm a classically trained jazz pianist - I've been playing since I was 3 years old.

I studied arranging and orchestration a number of years ago, so I have a home studio and arrange about three-fourths of my songs on the computer. Since writing orchestration is tedious, I often put an arrangement on the keyboard and let someone better-qualified finish it.

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.

I do get labeled as a guitar band, but the only reason is that's the instrument I know how to play. The guitar is serving the song I'm writing. But I'm learning how to play keyboard better now so that'll start serving the song as well; it'll be another flavor. I'm not going to switch it up with big, fat drum machine beats and real swoopy synths, but yeah...

The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.

In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.

I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.