The irony is that I use computers every day of my life to do music because I edit all of my music in a computer. But when it comes to doing live processing, I prefer, as a performer with an instrument, not just having the computer as the only thing I have. I really prefer and find it much more flexible to have the limitations of pedals.
You just have to press the right keys and the right pedals at the right time and the music plays itself.
There are times when the vehicle is in the ready mode, there are no indications externally that the vehicle can move and yet if someone accidentally hits the pedal, say when someone's inside, the car will move.
When I go to Florida for Christmas I always take my nieces and nephews out on excursions,. . . I become like a big kid again. We go on all the big rides at the theme parks or I stick them in go-karts where their feet can't quite reach the pedals. I think that if you can continue to have the child at heart you may grow old physically but you will stay young mentally.
I have an ElliptiGO. It's a standup bicycle. You don't pedal; you stride on it. It allows me to have the same striding motion as running without the impact.
Usually I don't think much in terms of interesting sounds. Although I think I want to get one of those whammy pedals, I forget what it's called and who makes it. It's got a whole bunch of different settings. You can play a note and it will raise the pitch when you push the pedal.
I use Pearl Eliminator Pedals and I swear by them.
Working with devices and guitar pedals and mixers and synthesizers is what I do, and I prefer people not focus on that because it's kind of distracting from what the point should be. At least for me, it's to have the primacy of aurality in the experience of that evening.
The pedal is the soul of the piano.
If you ever take your foot off the gas pedal, things will spiral out of control, snowball downwards.
Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle. . . If you don't pedal you don't go forward.
Can you drive any faster?" Tohr demanded. "I got the pedal to the medal" The angel looked back. "And I don't care what I have to mow over
Courage is a gas pedal and fear is a brake; when we go to our destination, we need both!
I drove a tractor almost as soon as I could reach the pedals.
If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else
Very gently. Like there are eggshells on your pedals, and you don’t want to break them. That’s how you drive in the rain.
If God had meant for us to walk, why did he give us feet that fit car pedals?
My hell is going to be the stairmaster wing of Dante's inferno, where they're gonna tape my feet to the pedals and the only music I get is Michael Bolton karaoke style.
I can say that I don't see myself with the foot on the gas pedal as hard as it's been down for 16 years.
It's very good to know when you're being lapped on the racetrack, 'cause you've got to put your foot down on the pedal and get going.
