Chords Quote by Earl Hines

Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.

— Ace Frehley

The thing is this: When I play, what I try to do is to reach my subconscious level. I don't want to overtly think…

— Sonny Rollins

I'll hear something in my head, then eventually play it. But it's a subconscious thing. Most of the time I really don't know what…

— Tommy Bolin

I kind of just got right into playing music because I could kind of stop thinking when I was concentrating on playing the guitar.

— Tash Sultana

When I'm playing music I'm usually not thinking of surfing, just because I'm usually thinking about the chords and the lyrics, and sometimes that…

— Jack Johnson

I love to zoom in and study why a chord is making me feel a certain way, but then I've learnt to zoom out…

— Jacob Collier

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

— David Bowie

You can't think and play. If you think about what you're playing the playing becomes stilted. You have to just focus on the music…

— Joe Pass

Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.

— Isaac Hanson

I'm always seeing stuff and imagining scenes in my head when I'm making music.

— Flying Lotus

Slowly, over time, I learned enough that I started considering myself a musician, where I actually knew how to play instruments. But still, when…

— Tycho

For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.

— Rick Wright