Quotes about Chords

Country music is three chords and the truth. Votes: 4

If you play more than two chords, you're showing off. Votes: 4

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place. Votes: 4

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz. Votes: 4

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. Votes: 4

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means. Votes: 4

Chords that were broken will vibrate once more. Votes: 3

If it has more than three chords, it's jazz. Votes: 3

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe. Votes: 3

Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. Votes: 3

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated. Votes: 3

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out. Votes: 3

I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing. Votes: 3

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label. Votes: 3

You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard. Votes: 3

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: 3

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: 3

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: 3

When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don't vary your tones you can't get pretty tired of your own voice. Votes: 3

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: 3

My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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: 3

I think the one-on-one gigs connecting with the fans - is the most important thing. That will help build your fan base. They'll talk about you, and word spreads. Those things are just as important as knowing how to play an E chord. Votes: 3

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: 3

Sometimes it starts with a random lyric idea that sets the tone for the whole song. Chords and sounds build from the lyric and rhythm, kind of. Sometimes it's a track I fall I love with... but writing my own songs, I rarely write on tracks. Votes: 3

In some types of music I'm working out all the chords one bar at a time - the whole structure, because it's about that. And there are other pieces which are really about - okay, the melody is going to start here and play through to here. Votes: 3

We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour. Votes: 3

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: 3

A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music. Votes: 3

I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords. Votes: 1

Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. Votes: 1

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar. Votes: 1

Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women. Votes: 1

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can. Votes: 1

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born. Votes: 1

Over the years, I've had to learn to play. For example, when 'Lennon' was on Broadway, I learned my way around the guitar chords because originally we were all going to play the instruments without a band. Votes: 1

Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own. Votes: 1

I liken movies to playing a piano: Sometimes you're playing the chords and different notes with unresolved cadences and playing all major chords that are all over the place, and you're enjoying yourself with a great, simple melody. Votes: 1

A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world. Votes: 1

Branding is not merely about differentiating products; it is about striking emotional chords with consumers. It is about cultivating identity, attachment, and trust to inspire customer loyalty. Chinese brands score low on attributes such as 'sophisticated,' 'desirable,' 'innovative,' 'friendly,' and 'trustworthy.' Votes: 1

When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do. Votes: 1

I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I'm considering as I'm soloing, and at the same time I'm going as much out on a limb as Frank Zappa used to, in terms of just going crazy on the instrument. Votes: 1

The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing. Votes: 1

I learned to play by ear before I learned music theory. For me, that makes sense. After all, children learn to speak before they read and write. The more you understand of music - how harmony and time signatures work, and what chords and inversions are - the more you'll enjoy it. 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

I understand I'm supposed to be feminine and dainty, but I'm not. There are two sides to the coin. People are more impressed with things that I do because they almost treat you as if you're handicapped if you're a woman... people can be impressed that I can play a few chords on the guitar. Votes: 1

Bill Gates recently picked up the ukulele. And Warren Buffett is a huge ukulele fan. I even got to strum a few chords with Francis Ford Coppola. It blows my mind that these people, who have everything in the world they could want, have picked up the ukulele and found a little bit of joy. Votes: 1

Ive been playing swing chords for a long time. Votes: 0

The total person sings not just the vocal chords. Votes: 0

I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all. Votes: 0

I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords. Votes: 0

I'd definitely like to see less twerking and more power chords. Votes: 0

All I have is this guitar, these chords and the truth. Votes: 0

Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off. Votes: 0

For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating. Votes: 0

Learn 2 chords and then get a good lawyer before learning the 3rd. Votes: 0

A, C, and G are the only chords any honest musician needs. Votes: 0

All I've got is a red guitar, three chords and the truth. Votes: 0

Yeah, I can read music and I know the names of chords. Votes: 0

Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies. Votes: 0

I bid the chords sweet music make, And all must follow in my wake. Votes: 0

How light the touches are that kiss the music from the chords of life! Votes: 0

I really love country music, just this idea of three chords and the truth. Votes: 0

I liked writing the negative ads more than - because it's more minor chords. Votes: 0

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched. Votes: 0

As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses. Votes: 0

Sin hath broke the world's sweet peace--unstrung Th' harmonious chords to which the angels sung. Votes: 0

To charm, to strengthen, and to teach: these are the three great chords of might. Votes: 0

I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters. Votes: 0

Young people are still experiencing the thrill of three chords and over-amplified guitars. They always will. Votes: 0

I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords. Votes: 0

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

There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion. Votes: 0

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. Votes: 0

The powerful chords that emanated from the radio heated me from the inside out, like a microwave. Votes: 0

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together. Votes: 0

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish. Votes: 0

You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around. Votes: 0

I stopped going out and taking pills and I started hanging out and learning about flat eleven chords... Votes: 0

I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar. Votes: 0

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. Votes: 0

The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony. Votes: 0

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords. Votes: 0

A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds. Votes: 0

About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar. Votes: 0

I guess the approach to song writing for me so far has been to use more chords and less math. Votes: 0

Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five! Votes: 0

I can put some chords together and maybe write a song, but I'm learning every day. And that's the fun part. Votes: 0

There are certain parts of chords that resolve things and tie a bow, and others that keep things open and unanswered. Votes: 0

Everything you do is different, and you find different chords in every character that you play that strike true with you. Votes: 0

Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model. Votes: 0

All them weird chords which don't mean a thing...you got no melody to remember, and no beat to dance to Votes: 0

I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over. Votes: 0

There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure Votes: 0

New year is a day, to tune the rhythm called SOUL, with best chords called EXPERIENCES and play the guitar called LIFE. 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

The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure. Votes: 0

Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas. Votes: 0

It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song. Votes: 0

When God is involved, anything can happen. Be open. Stay that way. God has a beautiful way of bringing good vibrations out of broken chords. Votes: 0

It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords Votes: 0

It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's it. Just using notes differently. Votes: 0

The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I just like simplicity. I like simple songs, I like simple chords, simple vocals, simple lead guitar. I just like simplicity. That's just the way I like it. 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

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. 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

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people. It's a fear of failure, I guess. Votes: 0

Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody with lumpen rock drumming and power chords. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just about the most important aspect of playing guitar Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that space with all them chords and sounds he was playing then. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Donald Trump has been practicing the chords of reality politics for 11 years doing reality television. And so he's clearly the frontrunner and he is clearly dominating. But I still believe in some old rules. Votes: 0

The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Creation is the vocal chords of God speaking each day through the colors of the sunrise, the vastness of the night sky,the teeming of life in the ocean, the majesty of the mountains. Votes: 0

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. 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 played with so many musicians and some of the musicians would have something I want. I steal a lot of them, and I mash it up, I mash it up into my chords. 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 would get my laugh insured! Because my laugh is very important: it's a million dollar laugh, so if my vocal chords make my laugh any different, then I'm going to have to get insured. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. 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

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