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Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of alternate bass lines, suspensions, widely… — Jimmy Webb
Any quick analysis of a Beatles tune or a Cole Porter tune will reveal often simple but unexpected chords, chords that chromatically shift between keys,… — Paul Zollo
I think I have to work to write a happy song. I write them carefully; they're simple and they're about when it's fun to walk… — Rickie Lee Jones
The healing power of music is vast. Music therapy is in its infancy in Western psychology. If we knew more, we'd be able to do… — Gary Talley
There are persons who always find a hair in their plate of soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they… — Christian Friedrich Hebbel
Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme. — John Szarkowski
The melodies were melodies that anybody could sing or hum or whistle. And the words were just about that simple. I think the stories Hank… — Don Helms
Paul Simon once said that a songwriter's supreme challenge was being complex and simple at the same time-writing songs with lasting depth that are also… — Paul Zollo
I knew a lot of chords, but they weren't the chords that came with the melody that came with the idea I had for the… — Tom T. Hall
Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys ... Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma's house ... and a date night… — Michelle Obama
The strands of spaghetti were vital, almost alive in my mouth, and the olive oil was singing with flavor. It was hard to imagine that… — Ruth Reichl
Something good happened to my writing when I stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I couldn't do… — Carrie Newcomer
He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed ten or twenty times… — Stephen King
As a product of history and faith, Jewish Americans have helped to open our eyes to injustice, to people in need, and to the simple… — Barack Obama
From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every moment we are… — Swami Vivekananda
My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of… — Hannah More
Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man. — Howard Cosell
I loved the movie for the simple reason that I saw the scenes and I saw Muhammad working with these guys. — Angelo Dundee
My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that… — Albert Einstein

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