I really love country music, just this idea of three chords and the truth. — Ragnar Kjartansson Copy Share Image
In the Air Force, I had an old Wilcox Gay recorder, and I used to hear guitar runs on that recorder going… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes,… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it...I always believed that I have something important to say… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could… — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Now, I don't want to give you the impression that I'm a great musicologist, but I'm a lot better than what I… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people.… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
The biochemistry and biophysics are the notes required for life; they conspire, collectively, to generate the real unit of life, the organism.… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because… — David Guetta Copy Share Image
I had a love affair with books, with characters and their words. Books kept me company. When the voices of the book… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I… — Angus Young Copy Share Image
I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with… — Ken Hensley Copy Share Image
You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I began to learn a lot of chords and rhythms. It was a bit boring at the time but came in very… — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
I remember writing a song when I was about 15. This is the one I can remember. I know I'd been writing… — Ladyhawke Copy Share Image
As soon as you get off stage, that's the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords… — Anita Baker Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to produce is the visual equivalent of the chord change that makes the hairs on the back of your… — Rian Hughes Copy Share Image
I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
There seemed to be a sense about Sarah [Harmer] even back then.She was obviously a quick study. I remember going to the… — Gordon Downie Copy Share Image
There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image