Chords Quotes

Trios aren't really geared for slide unless you're gonna play chords, or play that simple George Thorogood style. It gets pretty thin when you play single note lines.

I stopped going out and taking pills and I started hanging out and learning about flat eleven chords.

I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing.

I bought one of those Learn How to Play Guitar Chords By Yourself and it shows you the diagram where to put your hands and I took that in my room, sat with my singles and learned how to play guitar.

I bid the chords sweet music make, And all must follow in my wake.

I definitely had some moments, where, "Wow, these were some hard chords" on some gig.

I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.

The strangest part of Indian music is its lack of chords: There's no such thing as major or minor, and it's unusual to hear more than two different pitches at the same time.

He was a god of rock. He nearly solved all the world's problems with nothing but power chords and anguished cries into a microphone.

I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over.

No man can force the harp of his own individuality into the people's heart; but every man may play upon the chords of the people's heart, who draws his inspiration from the people's instinct.

A chord is just the name of a sound.

When I was about 15, I picked up the guitar and learned how to play by going through Beatles chords books. I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog.

I could live inside a G major chord, with Grace, if she was willing.

... there are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music.

Sometimes it's tough because I've got to sleep 15 hours to sing the way I want to. It's not easy because my vocal chords are different than most people's.

I bad a piano long before I bad a guitar, and the practice I got just playing those three chords in a basic 12-bar blues song was very important.

At a certain point, I should start to pay attention and make sure I'm not damaging my vocal chords, because I enjoy using them a lot.

As an actor, you want as much variety as you can muster up. Otherwise you just keep playing the same chord over and over again.

I guess the approach to song writing for me so far has been to use more chords and less math.

I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.

Lionel [Richie] said, "Yeah, I learned chords and stuff playin' against your albums."

When I first started, I worked with three chords in every bar, but I found that tied me down - I'm not a chord-change writer, I'm a songwriter.

Each acoustic guitar has its own character and personality. On a particular day, I might pick one up and start noodling around, looking for some emotional content in the chords.

I try to be prepared for the moment, through understanding, and being warmed up, knowing all about chords and scales, so I don't even have to think and I can get right to what it is I want to say.

Any quick analysis of a Beatles tune or a Cole Porter tune will reveal often simple but unexpected chords, chords that chromatically shift between keys, or between major and minor.

Sin hath broke the world's sweet peace--unstrung Th' harmonious chords to which the angels sung.

I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did.

There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an idea that's attached to just a few chords. Other times, it's work.

I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious.

I just started off on my own by learning the regular chords then the barre chords. Then I'd lean the notes that would go with them.

It’s really strange, but they speak to me — the notes and the chords. So when I hear other people’s music, I can feel the composer. Whoever created that, I can see in their soul.

I tend to hear rhythm and melody, chord-progressions, long before I hear words.

I'll write and make chords with my voice sometimes if I don't have an instrument even though it takes a million times longer.

Theory is a six-letter dirty word to most musicians, but hey, musicians love dirty words, right? And just like all the other dirty words, theory is easy to learn and fun to use!

Life is like a guitar and the combination of chords are called moments. Playing them is the called living the moments.

Music is the Universal Language that allows all people to communicate with each other.