Jeff Ament - I played djembe, percussion, keyb...

I don't focus on one thing. I play guitar and bass and keyboards and drums, but I never stay on anything long enough to become a specialist at it. Lou Barlow

Guitar Focus Long Become Bass Enough Keyboards One Thing Stay Never Drums Anything Specialist Play Thing

I grew up around electronic instruments. To me, the turntable is an electronic device. At the same time, I had access to drum machines and keyboards through my uncle; then track recorders into computers. At an early age, I was messing with computers more than most hip-hop musicians. Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Time Me Musicians Age Uncle Keyboards Machines More Through Computers Had Device Drum Most Instruments Track Messing Around Access Hip-Hop Up Than Same Same Time Grew Then Turntable Electronic Early Early Age

I would like to play with electronic keyboards again. Andy Summers

Keyboards Would Like Again Electronic Play

Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together, though they also had regular jobs because they had kids and stuff like that. Caroline Corr

Together Mother Father Band Keyboards Though Kids Jobs Piano Had Stuff Like Also Singer Because Were Yes Regular Played

One summer, when I was elementary-school age, my neighbors and I built guitars and keyboards out of scrap wood, painted them in bright colors, and formed the cover band Lil' 'D' Duran Duran. We didn't make our own noise or even pretend to play our fake instruments. Carrie Brownstein

Age Noise Band Own Keyboards Our Summer Neighbors Out Pretend Guitars Colors Make Instruments Built Fake Cover Duran Scrap Wood Formed Them Painted Even Bright Play

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. Chick Corea

Great Keyboards Favorite Feature Pianist Piano Songs He Support Great Songs Like Call Him Stevie Stevie Wonder Because His Wonder Blow Mean Forth Much Really Uses Technique

Android phones are sold by dozens of hardware makers, the biggest being Samsung, Motorola, and HTC. There are lots of different form factors. Slider phones. Phones with keyboards. Big screens, small screens, midsize screens. Daniel Lyons

Phones Big Keyboards Sold Slider Android Small Factors Makers Lots Being Different Form Samsung Screens Biggest Dozens Hardware

The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them. Gary Wright

Happy Accident Keyboards Kind More Only Idea Instruments Felt Sound Quite Happened Them Really Use Album Need

I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing. Gary Wright

First Think Other Keyboards Machines Kind He Stuff Like Drum Also Well Stevie Stevie Wonder Were His Lot Wonder Brass Artist Really Use Used Who Whole Ever Thing Things Started Album

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