Chord Quotes

157 Chord quotes by 142 unique authors

Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet? — Billy Gibbons
Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those… — Nile Rodgers
Chord substitution isn't some mysterious religious sect. — Howard Roberts
I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like… — Richard Rodney Bennett
Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord. — Terry Pratchett
Bird's mind and fingers work with incredible speed. He can imply four chord changes in a melodic pattern where another musician would have trouble inserting… — Leonard Feather
Before I went on stage at Kyle Hutton's Real Life Real Music Festival, I heard one of his songwriting students, Abbey Hirvela, sing; she was… — Ray Wylie Hubbard
... there are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music. — Mahatma Gandhi
Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord,… — W. Somerset Maugham
Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child. — Roddy Doyle
I love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos. — Jon Lord
I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord… — Joanna Newsom
I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock… — Jeff Lynne
Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the… — Maurice Saatchi
True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In this way, the… — Maurice Saatchi
It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so… — Regina Spektor
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… — Cristin Milioti
I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort… — M. Ward
As an actor, you want as much variety as you can muster up. Otherwise you just keep playing the same chord over and over again. — Michelle Forbes
Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few. — Carl Jung

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