Chord Quotes

157 Chord quotes by 142 unique authors

It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you. — Darrell Hammond
Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially.… — Alex Kapranos
The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more. — Black Francis
To some degree. I think that I've always been very much of a chordal person. The chords are the foundation of everything. Some of Yes'… — Geoff Downes
Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping in that minor… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because it makes it… — David Guetta
Sometimes images may emerge from some chord in my subconscious, the way a dream might. Even in those paintings where an image unconsciously develops, a… — Robert Motherwell
The music comes first, like, 99 percent of the time. I come up with the basic chord structure and the melody first and then I… — Mikal Cronin
I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes, and a melody,… — David Byrne
I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned… — Ace Frehley
I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally. — Martin Gore
I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the… — Billy Corgan
It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean something… — Zooey Deschanel
'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who… — Larry Hagman
I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning.… — Ken Hensley
I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good… — Joan Jett
A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that… — Joan Jett
I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on… — Alvin Lee
I can't remember the first song I learned to play on bass, but the first song I learned to play on guitar was 'For Your… — Geddy Lee
I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their… — Joni Mitchell

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