Chords Quotes

284 Chords quotes by 245 unique authors

School of Rock. The best music school anywhere. This whole idea of getting kids not just taking lessons and learning notes and chords, but learning… — Dee Snider
I don't like no fancy chords. Just the boogie. The drive. The feeling. A lot of people play fancy but they don't have no style.… — John Lee Hooker
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
I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords,… — Gary Burton
I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just learn three chords… — Jarvis Cocker
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
My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love.… — Oscar Wilde
... 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
Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about… — Isaac D'Israeli
Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish. — Joe Elliott
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
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe. — Robert Burns
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
Yeah, I can read music and I know the names of chords. — Dave Navarro
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

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