Quotes about Chord

Chord substitution isn't some mysterious religious sect. Votes: 3

Chord progression is progression of emotions; storytelling - taking one person from one mood to the next. We are doing the same thing within a DJ set. Votes: 3

My real name is Chord Overstreet. I actually got my name because my dad is in the music business as a songwriter. I was the third one in my family born, and there are three notes in a chord, so that's how they came up with my name. Votes: 3

You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music. Votes: 1

Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. Votes: 1

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz. Votes: 1

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more. Votes: 1

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me. Votes: 1

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream. Votes: 1

All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as a melody or some musical chord progressions. Votes: 1

I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord. Votes: 1

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear. Votes: 1

A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout - rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle demanded of a good story - but the chord has to be resolved. Votes: 1

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody. Votes: 1

Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party. Votes: 1

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective. Votes: 1

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions? Votes: 1

Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere. Votes: 1

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school. Votes: 1

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe? Votes: 1

I thrive on change. That's probably why my chord changes are weird, because chords depict emotions. They'll be going along on one key and I'll drop off a cliff, and suddenly they will go into a whole other key signature. That will drive some people crazy, but that's how my life is. Votes: 1

True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In this way, the U.S. can provide and express ideals that strike a chord in humans everywhere - a declaration of independence on behalf of all the peoples of the world. Votes: 1

Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open G chord I go right. That's how hard I play, and that's how a lot of my stage act has come about. I just go where the guitar takes me. Votes: 1

I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man! Votes: 1

I can't remember the first song I learned to play on bass, but the first song I learned to play on guitar was 'For Your Love' by the Yardbirds. That kind of was the beginning for me. I thought it was a great song and I loved the open chord progression at the beginning of that song. Votes: 1

I like Kelela. I like Twigs. I love the more old school; I hate to say old school, but I love Peaches; I love Peaches, I love Cat Power. And there's constantly new things coming up. But there's something so beautifully powerful - for me being a woman, when there's a woman doing something, it really strikes a chord. Votes: 1

I kept on buying records and listening to them. Finally, I was able to hear the relationship between the jazz improvisers' solos and the underlying structure that it's based on, the chord progression. That was pretty easy to do in the swing era, y'know, when jazz was, like, pop music, you know. It had made the charts and everything like that. Votes: 1

'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR. Votes: 1

I took music theory for one year in high school and flunked all but one six-week period. That's because I couldn't read music, and the rest of the class was already eight or nine years into it. The teacher would sit down and hit a ten-fingered chord on the piano and you had to write all the notes down in about ten seconds. I just couldn't do it. Votes: 1

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano. Votes: 0

A chord is just the name of a sound. Votes: 0

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste. Votes: 0

We'd hold a chord for three hours if we could. Votes: 0

Why play a chord when you can play one note? Votes: 0

I like really sparse electronics, lush arrangements, and interesting chord structures. Votes: 0

I set down a beautiful chord on paper—and suddenly it rusts. Votes: 0

Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord. Votes: 0

By adopting a certain physical posture, a resonant chord is struck in spirit. Votes: 0

I tend to hear rhythm and melody, chord-progressions, long before I hear words. Votes: 0

I could live inside a G major chord, with Grace, if she was willing. Votes: 0

There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy. Votes: 0

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child. Votes: 0

Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. Votes: 0

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. Votes: 0

Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears...wi th one chord Votes: 0

If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song. Votes: 0

I've played the guitar since I was 12, and just taught myself songs chord by chord. Votes: 0

This is our grace: To be a note In the exact chord that animates creation. Votes: 0

We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us. Votes: 0

I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally. Votes: 0

Genius is when you strike a chord accidently, and the ensuing music is beyond your control Votes: 0

There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright. Votes: 0

I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older. Votes: 0

Wild Horses" started in a B-minor chord, and Stu didn't play minor chords, "fucking Chinese music. Votes: 0

Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet? Votes: 0

Sometimes an unexpected chord change can be the difference between a good song and a great song. Votes: 0

Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord. Votes: 0

It turns out kids today still learn that four-chord progression when they're just picking up the guitar. Votes: 0

Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few. Votes: 0

When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song. Votes: 0

Every breath drawn by an individual who truly serves God will elicit a responsive chord from the universe around him. Votes: 0

War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged. Votes: 0

It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you. Votes: 0

It's funny how three or four notes of anger can be struck at once, creating the perfect chord of fury. Votes: 0

When the wind is against you, like a kite, have your chord of faith rooted and you would fly highest ever. Votes: 0

I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music. Votes: 0

Not everyone in Santa Monica is a well-heeled, juice-cleansing, Prius-driving yogini, but for better or worse, that is the city's dominant chord. Votes: 0

The soul of our music, The Monkees' music, lies somewhere inbetween the 1 1/2 , the 2 1/2, the 3 3/4 and th giant C-major chord on the piano! Votes: 0

I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious. Votes: 0

Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity. Votes: 0

These characters were like twelve-bar blues or other chord progressions. Given the basic parameters of Batman, different creators could play very different music. Votes: 0

Eye , gazelle, delicate wanderer, Drinker of horizon's fluid line; Ear that suspends on a chord The spirit drinking timelessness; Touch, love, all senses... Votes: 0

A Schubert song, the A-major chord at the opening of Wagner's 'Lohengrin' - such incredible beauty is a mystery, the divinity of music. Votes: 0

The last possible deed is that which defines perception itself, an invisible golden chord that connects us: illegal dancing in the courthouse corridors. Votes: 0

... there are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music. Votes: 0

If something really strikes a chord with an audience, if it pops on TV, I don't mind watching it for a few minutes. Votes: 0

I really write emotionally so whatever mood I'm in, or if a chord hits me a certain way that's what I'll go off of. Votes: 0

If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord. Votes: 0

I cringed as the band oozed into the next chord. If notes were cars, I think there was a D major under the wreckage. Votes: 0

When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo. Votes: 0

What I'm trying to produce is the visual equivalent of the chord change that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Votes: 0

the flanger setting ... makes it sound as if the chord is being chewed over thoughtfully by a large genie accustomed to telling long, implausible stories Votes: 0

With the classical stuff, I've always been better at the big brushstrokes and broad textures than spending ages honing a chord, or tweaking a sample. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos. Votes: 0

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more. Votes: 0

I was 16 when I started playing. I borrowed a friend's acoustic guitar, and I had a Beatles chord book. I just taught myself that way. Votes: 0

Bird's mind and fingers work with incredible speed. He can imply four chord changes in a melodic pattern where another musician would have trouble inserting two. Votes: 0

I started wanting to inject more colorful chord phrasings from the music I actually grew up on, which was Hendrix, Rolling Stones, and stuff like that. Votes: 0

I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs. Votes: 0

If I'm looking really intense, it's not because I'm trying to be mystical. It's because I'm thinking '[Dagnabit], that was supposed to be a 7th chord'. Votes: 0

The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because it makes it really emotional. Votes: 0

The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction. Votes: 0

Chris (Anderson) is risking his life with every chord, that's how much it means to him. He has such a reverence for beauty, he plays like an angel. Votes: 0

I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The way jazz works is that we take a theme, and then we write using the same structure, same chord changes, and then we can do different tunes. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As Wendy watched them they burst into a chord of tinkling, girlish laughter. She felt a smile touch her own lips; not one of them could be under sixty. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Beatles changed music forever. They took rock n' roll from a medium that was about cars and girls and gave it context, interesting chord changes and true musicianship. Votes: 0

There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world. Votes: 0

I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references. Votes: 0

A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues. Votes: 0

Kind of the critical acclaim of this movie [La La Land] is that it's striking a chord with the public in a way that has been really beautiful and powerful. Votes: 0

Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book- those invisible listeners with whom we wish to strike a sympathetic chord. Votes: 0

So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why. Votes: 0

I've never been a huge prog fan. My background is punk. My background is learning how to play a bar chord and listen to Discharge records when I was a kid. Votes: 0

I practice all the scales. Everyone should know lots of scales. Actually, I feel there are only scales. What is a chord, if not the notes of a scale hooked together? Votes: 0

Vanity is easily forgiven, for we are all vain, and even as we laugh at the weakness of others we feel that their vanity has touched the responding chord of our own. Votes: 0

The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord. Votes: 0

What I love about lyrics is that they don't have to be very complicated. A good sentence over a great chord with a good melody - all you need is that one moment. Votes: 0

It had better be quirky or perverse or thoughtful enough so that you hit some chord in them. I mean we've all read pieces where we thought, 'Oh, who gives a damn.' Votes: 0

Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends. Votes: 0

Poetry is the language of the soul;Poetic Prose, the language of my heart.Each line must flow as in a song,and strike a chord that rings forever.To me, words are music! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I've never used the word jamming. It's a matter of finding a great song and learning the chords, then slightly altering the vocal melody, and matching a classic chord progression with another chord progression. Votes: 0

I can talk about feelings, but I can't talk about why this chord on top of this chord sounds cool to me. It just makes me feel a certain way, and I like it. Votes: 0

There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are just arithmetic. Without the empty chord, music is just noise. Votes: 0

Even an ordinary broken chord is made to disclose rare beauties; we are reminded of the fairies' hazelnuts in which diamonds were concealed but you could break the shell only if your hands were blessed. Votes: 0

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place. Votes: 0

It's a double-headed coin, because technology is a convenience but it's stifled our attention spans. At one time, albums had songs that were like ten minutes long, with different variations and chord progressions and changes. Votes: 0

Star Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil... The theme came from stories and ideas that have been around for thousands of years. Votes: 0

Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. Votes: 0

My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of chords in one song. If I find another chord I leave it for another song. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I was the third one in my family born, and there are three notes in a chord, so that's how they came up with my name, Votes: 0