If something really strikes a chord with an audience, if it pops on TV, I don't mind watching it for a few… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters. — Mick Taylor Copy Share Image
It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you. — Darrell Hammond Copy Share Image
You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard. — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I stopped going out and taking pills and I started hanging out and learning about flat eleven chords. — Jamie Lidell Copy Share Image
As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses. — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women. — Glenn Frey 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
So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't want to use big… — Midge Ure Copy Share Image
You see people you identify with, and you take pieces of people you like and shape who you are. Like, I sound… — Damon Wayans, Jr Copy Share Image
The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different… — Abdu'l-Bahá 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
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
The melodies are always the most important part to me. I am pulled more to the groove than the chord progression. After… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn… — Alicia Keys 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
In the morning I'd write these essays, anything that I'd feel like writing, and in the afternoon, I'd spend time with my… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves,… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Especially on Broadway, composers and lyricists fretted over their creations, obsessed over every rhyme, every critical chord or interval. The stakes were… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
I think the origin of all this clamour for tonality is not so much the need to sense a relationship to the… — Alban Berg Copy Share Image
Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I love playing all kinds of roles. I hope it doesn’t sound too pretentious, but I always feel human nature is like… — Tom Hiddleston 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
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
All them weird chords which don't mean a thing...you got no melody to remember, and no beat to dance to — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
If the chords change a lot over the course of a song, it's better to stay within the same melodic structure. — Max Martin 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
There's four chords in every song. That's the fun part - trying to make that your own. — Olivia Rodrigo Copy Share Image
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Music is the Universal Language that allows all people to communicate with each other.” — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating. — Suzy Bogguss Copy Share Image
I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into… — Jeff Lynne 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
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
It's funny how three or four notes of anger can be struck at once, creating the perfect chord of fury. — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
There are chords in the human heart- strange, varying strings- which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It's dedicating yourself to your craft. Spending thousands of hours in a studio learning how to write a song, learning how to… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
