Definition of Keyboard

Keyboard

The whole arrangement, or one range, of the keys of an organ, typewriter, etc.

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An, Arrangement, Of, One, Or, Organ, Range, The, Typewriter, Whole

Keyboard Quotations

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

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

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

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

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

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

The keyboard is my journal.
Pharrell Williams

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

Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together.
David Guterson

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

We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into it to create this ghost repetition melody.
Colin Greenwood

Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I was the keyboard player. I was interested in how the instruments worked and the theory behind playing with them.
Brian McKnight

There's a clip where he had someone miming me running around from keyboard to keyboard. Oh dear, I am sure a lot of people didn't know what he was going on about.
Keith Emerson

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'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.
Tom Jenkinson

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.
Joseph Goebbels

In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing.
Mary Garden

I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard.
Bill Joy

And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard.
Chantal Kreviazuk

So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.
Thomas Dolby

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.
Sarah Zettel

So in one sense you don't have the classic keyboard player in Yes.
Billy Sherwood

After moving to England I did some recording and eventually formed an English band, this was together for quite a few years with only a keyboard replacement. The band had no name, just my name.
Suzi Quatro

At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that, not being a good keyboard player, I could write things in very small sections, give them a certain feel and mess about with bends on the keyboard.
Midge Ure

I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard.
Jeremy Renner

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.
Alicia Witt

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

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

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Keyboard Translations

keyboard in Dutch is toetsenbord, klavier
keyboard in French is clavier
keyboard in German is Tastatur
keyboard in Italian is tastiera, pianola
keyboard in Norwegian is klaviatur, tastatur
keyboard in Portuguese is teclado
keyboard in Swedish is tangentbord

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