Typewriter Quotes

Fantastic to write with. They have their place, they`re terribly useful to the musician, but they`re just another tool. They never will replace a good drummer. A lot of the bands that use them, I call them typewriter bands because basically they program the sample sounds with no real dynamics, and that dynamics is very important. And the records come out sounding very flat and very 2-dimensional whereas something with real dynamics and a good drummer can add another dimension - depth - to the band and that`s why bands that play together when they`re actually making the record will always sound better. (On drum machines)

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

Ever since I can remember, I`ve always wanted to tell stories, but I never had the patience to sit down at a typewriter and write short stories or anything like that. I started writing songs as a way of communicating ideas the best way I could.

I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, `Okay, you fall off the horse this time.`

I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: `Oh, you`re working on it right now?`

I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.

The image of the reporter as a nicotine-stained Quixote, slugging back Scotch while skewering city hall with an expose ripped out of a typewriter on the crack of deadline, persists despite munificent evidence to the contrary.

I`m not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I`ve never understood.

I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger.

Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

((IDG) -- Bob Taylor recalls taking the wind out of the sails of a secretary who had just gotten a brand new, top-of-the-line IBM typewriter. It was 1972, and Taylor was heading up a lab at a then two-year-old research facility that was working on a small interactive computer.) She was showing the typewriter off to a group of six or seven people, and I walked over and hit a couple of keys and said, `You know, we`re going to make this thing obsolete,` ... And everyone just looked at me like I was crazy.

A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It`s a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.