Chords Quotes

I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.

Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

How light the touches are that kiss the music from the chords of life!

I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.

It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.

I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older.

Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.

To charm, to strengthen, and to teach: these are the three great chords of might.

I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just learn three chords in a week and you're away.

You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around.

As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses.

Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!

Bon Jovi's trick is to use heavy-metal chords and still sound absolutely safe. Rock & roll used to be rebellion disguised as commercialism; now so much of it is commercialism disguised as rebellion.

I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.

I tried several times to get the song right. The tune and the chords that I started with, there really wasn't anywhere else it could go. I stopped fighting it and let it take me away.

For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating.

Ive been playing swing chords for a long time.

There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.

To play with a band all of the time, just about nightly, was good for me because I wrote lots of arrangements and I got a lot of my transposition and chords ironed out.

I began to learn a lot of chords and rhythms. It was a bit boring at the time but came in very handy later on.

Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.

The total person sings not just the vocal chords.

Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to have loud chords struck on them.

Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about to harmonize.

I really love country music, just this idea of three chords and the truth.

I'd definitely like to see less twerking and more power chords.

Yeah, I can read music and I know the names of chords.

There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.

I'm not very good at playing piano, so I usually hit chords with my right hand. And those chords came, and I was just singing a little bit.

The lyrics, the strings, the chords, everything comes at the moment like a gift that is put right into your head and that's how I hear it.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

Why play a chord when you can play one note?

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.

As soon as you get off stage, that's the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords are receptive to any kind of germ.

If something really strikes a chord with an audience, if it pops on TV, I don't mind watching it for a few minutes.

I don't want to discredit people's opinions of me, but you talk about the violin or the cello or lead guitar where you have to learn tons of chords, that's much more difficult.

I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it.

Before too long I was playing badly out in some bars around Memphis, but as soon as I learned a few chords I started writing my own stuff.

The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and power chords.

I am the consequence of a particular type of demographic movement, one that has always involved paying a high price. But I don't know much about styles or genres. I only know notes and chords.

I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.

There are certain parts of chords that resolve things and tie a bow, and others that keep things open and unanswered.

A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.

I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.

Young people are still experiencing the thrill of three chords and over-amplified guitars. They always will.

This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit or multiplex, but always of a crystalline serenity.

I got started at a really young age. I was about two years old when I started playing the piano and around seven or eight when I started writing my own chords and putting words together.

I know a few chords on the guitar, but I wouldn't be able do a show or even be part of a jam session with one.