Chords Quotes

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Bob Erlendson, a local piano player, taught me chord structure and which scales go along with them. Later, I began listening to [pianists] Bill Evans… — Lenny Breau
But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us.… — Michael Hutchence
Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny… — Tom Morello
I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my… — Earl Hines
To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Â Strange and wonderful chords awake… — D. H. Lawrence
The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the… — Camille Saint-Saens
About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar. — Freddie Mercury
People listen to the music and sense what it is about. Sometimes they know exactly what the songs are about, sometimes they interpret their own… — Enya
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
This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit or… — Jack Vance
It's funny how three or four notes of anger can be struck at once, creating the perfect chord of fury. — Tayari Jones
I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older. — Esa-Pekka Salonen
If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord. — Pat Metheny
Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's it. Just using… — Thelonious Monk
Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that space with all… — Miles Davis
At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk is that I… — Randy Weston
His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering a saxophone. Such… — Gunther Schuller
I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. ... I found that by using the higher intervals… — Charlie Parker
The band and I were leading at a Youth Specialties convention. We were asked to back up Matt Maher for one of the sessions. Matt… — Chris Tomlin
Itâ€™s really strange, but they speak to me â€” the notes and the chords. So when I hear other peopleâ€™s music, I can feel the… — Yanni

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