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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 eating plastic broccoli.

— Keith Jarrett

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.

— Julian Casablancas

My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music.

— Al Madrigal

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

— Zedd

I would like to play with electronic keyboards again.

— Andy Summers

When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that.

— Sivamani

I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.

— Beck

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

— Andy Summers

People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.

— Bill Laswell

✗Opposing Perspectives

I play the piano. I bought an upright piano that is actually electric, so I can practice my scales with headphones on and not make my neighbours' lives hell!

— Eva Green

It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the keys. I'm doing action stories, so that's the way I like to do it.

— Elmore Leonard