Chords Quotes

284 quotes by 245 authors

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz. — Lou Reed
If it has more than three chords, it's jazz. — Lou Reed
I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for… — Lou Reed
Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a… — Keanu Reeves
It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird town nobody never… — Rob Sheffield
I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. — Patti Smith
I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar. — Patti Smith
I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters. — Mick Taylor
Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want… — Ville Valo
You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music. — Sid Vicious
You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard. — Pharrell Williams
Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open… — Angus Young
I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key… — Neil Young
You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled… — Frank Zappa
Bill Gates recently picked up the ukulele. And Warren Buffett is a huge ukulele fan. I even got to strum a few chords with Francis… — Jake Shimabukuro
To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel,… — George Eliot
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The… — Abraham Lincoln
It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song. — George Harrison
Because music, like color, or a cloud, is neither intelligent nor unintelligent - it just is. The chord, the simplest building block for even the… — Nick Hornby
the search for meaning is really the search for the lost chord. When the lost chord is discovered by humankind, the discord in the world… — John O'Donohue

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