I'll just sit at the piano a lot an play like through different chord exercises and kind of just throwing my hands… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
As a melody instrument player, it's all about getting from one note to the next, and those intervals and how you navigate… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
George Harrison was a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous guitarist, and a wonderful example of what a rock star should be. I totally revered… — Brian May Copy Share Image
A good example of a lyric that makes me laugh but might not hit anybody right away is, "Sit behind the guitar… — Tim Heidecker Copy Share Image
There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy. — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My stepfather met my mother when I was seven years old, and he was a guitar player. So he caught me messing… — George Benson Copy Share Image
Maybe sometimes things come to you that you never, in a thousand years, would have included. But they strike a chord, so… — Joan Tewkesbury Copy Share Image
I would describe my songs as just a collection of my thoughts, with melodies that probably occurred to me in the grocery… — Withered Hand Copy Share Image
Young people are still experiencing the thrill of three chords and over-amplified guitars. They always will. — Horace Panter Copy Share Image
School of Rock. The best music school anywhere. This whole idea of getting kids not just taking lessons and learning notes and… — Dee Snider Copy Share Image
When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
This Lullaby is only a few words, a simple run of chords, quiet here in this spare room, but you can hear… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. ... I found that by using… — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
The healing power of music is vast. Music therapy is in its infancy in Western psychology. If we knew more, we'd be… — Gary Talley Copy Share Image
I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I usually start with a guitar riff or some little pattern of chords, and then I kind of go from there. Usually… — Butterfly Boucher Copy Share Image
A lot of it starts with playing instruments and working with other people. Some of the new generation is doing it on… — Ray Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
I started playing guitar back in '56. I was a teenager, and guitars had just come in, and I had a thing… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end,… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I learned some chords and I started watching anybody I could, once I really got into it. — Johnny Rivers Copy Share Image
