Instruments Quote by Pauline Oliveros Download Open image “A mouse and a keyboard is not a good performance instrument.” — Pauline Oliveros ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Instruments Keyboards Mice Performances
There is nothing like having your hands on a keyboard. Or an acoustic piano. Those are the things you can't really replace. — Geoff Downes Copy Share Image
I play keyboards and Pro Tools, if you want to look at it as an instrument. — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
The opportunity to use a computer is great when it is used as one component, or when someone is working on his or her… — Volker Bertelmann Copy Share Image
The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them. — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse.' There is no evidence that people want to use these things. — John C. Dvorak Copy Share Image
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… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
I don't own a computer. I have a nine-foot piano in my home to compose my messages. Why would I want a one-foot computer… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
One day I decided I would like to put a record into my system. So I picked up a record that was lying on… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I can't really deal with buttons. And that's what I keep saying, "Okay, I can't push buttons, because that means I have to take… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
There is a book called San Francisco Tape Music Centre:1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde and this book describes everything that you want to know… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music. — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
In the '60s my friends were interested and we were hearing electronic music coming in on community radio from Europe, so that's where it… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
[Students] they did the sonic meditations, I would observe them in their ensembles, and the ensembles improved incredibly. So I knew I had something… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
It was around the end of the '60s, when I began to compose sonic meditations. Before that I was doing a lot of reflecting… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I got very interested in attention and awareness and how to achieve certain states through understanding this. — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I try to influence this improvisation in two ways. One is by centering on reflections, in both senses of the word: acoustic reflections as… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
People's experiences are all different, and you don't know what the person experienced. They know, but you don't, so I think it's important to… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I noticed you could monitor the recording that you're making, but you could also monitor the playback head. There's a little distance between them… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
First of all I had to teach myself how to use the studio because there wasn't any classes in electronic music. So I'd stay… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against… — Nils Frahm Copy Share Image
It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word about life,… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives of an… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it… — Theodore Guerin Copy Share Image
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