Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My father would say, 'Play a scale,' and I'd play one and he'd say, 'What about the rest? There must be one… — Joe Pass Copy Share Image
I can't remember the first song I learned to play on bass, but the first song I learned to play on guitar… — Geddy Lee Copy Share Image
It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy… — Andrew Dost Copy Share Image
Sometimes an idea from six years ago will come to me out of the blue. And maybe I haven't even seen the… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over. — King Krule Copy Share Image
Rap is the number one most influential thing, it's the only genre that really strikes a chord. When you sing, you feel… — Tyga Copy Share Image
This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I don't know about five guys against the world. It's more like five guys against these three chords, and we're gonna wrestle… — Benmont Tench Copy Share Image
The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2… — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
No joy for which thy hungering heart has panted, No hope it cherishes through waiting years, But if thou dost deserve it,… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The way that words mutate reminds me of fashions in music. The word--the note--is a constant. But the setting and chord in… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
Sometimes images may emerge from some chord in my subconscious, the way a dream might. Even in those paintings where an image… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
I really got into psych because everything has a really good groove to it and it's nicely spaced out, but ultimately they… — Mike Romano Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I actually end up doing three or four different versions of one song, and sometimes, those versions can be done very… — Trentemøller Copy Share Image
There was this big skiffle craze happening for a while in England.... Everybody was in a skiffle group..All you needed was an… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Wherever inspiration comes from, it's like I'll hear a melody and chords, almost a rough structure of the whole thing [song]. I'll… — Chris Wyse Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I'm driving along in my car, and a song from my high-school years comes on the radio: Springsteen's 'Thunder Road.' Just… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I've spent three hours with Snoop Dogg, talking about how he loved [Peaky Blinders series]. And David Bowie loved it. The late… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
The music has gotten thick. Guys give me tunes and they're full of chords. I can't play them...I think a movement in… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be… — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
These days I keep a journal, so I'm constantly sketching down my thoughts, or lines that come to me...ideas for songs. And… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
