1.
When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.
Joe Strummer
When I began, they said all I required were 3 notes and sincerity... It turned out I could make do with 2 and some uncertain concepts.
2.
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
'Apart from a handful of guitar chords, all the wisdom I possess that is of any substance has been obtained from women.'
3.
Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?
Billy Gibbons
4.
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 G chord I go right. That's how hard I play, and that's how a lot of my stage act has come about. I just go where the guitar takes me.
Angus Young
5.
You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.
Sid Vicious
6.
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
7.
By adopting a certain physical posture, a resonant chord is struck in spirit.
Unknown
8.
All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.
David Byrne
9.
Every breath drawn by an individual who truly serves God will elicit a responsive chord from the universe around him.
Samson Raphael Hirsch
10.
If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.
Lou Reed
11.
Learn 2 chords and then get a good lawyer before learning the 3rd.
Tony Iommi
12.
All I have is this guitar, these chords and the truth.
Jon Bon Jovi
13.
I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
B. B. King
14.
There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.
Ouida
15.
I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.
Dave Davies
16.
Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.
David Bowie
17.
If you hear a C-major chord with an equal temperament, you've heard it a million times before and your brain accepts it. But if you hear a chord that you've never heard before, you're like, "huh."
Aphex Twin
18.
I liked writing the negative ads more than - because it's more minor chords.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
19.
I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.
Martin Gore
20.
Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies.
Flume
21.
Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!
Leonard Cohen
22.
There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.
Thomas Hood
23.
Ive been playing swing chords for a long time.
Suzy Bogguss
24.
As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses.
Jonny Greenwood
25.
I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
26.
Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.
Annie Besant
27.
I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.
Mick Taylor
28.
The total person sings not just the vocal chords.
E. M. Broner
29.
To play with a band all of the time, just about nightly, was good for me because I wrote lots of arrangements and I got a lot of my transposition and chords ironed out.
Allen Toussaint
30.
I began to learn a lot of chords and rhythms. It was a bit boring at the time but came in very handy later on.
Alvin Lee
31.
Yeah, I can read music and I know the names of chords.
Dave Navarro
32.
The lyrics, the strings, the chords, everything comes at the moment like a gift that is put right into your head and that's how I hear it.
Michael Jackson
33.
There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.
Frank Herbert
34.
Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping in that minor chord, disease. Say you are well, or all is well with you, And God shall hear your words and make them true.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
35.
I'd definitely like to see less twerking and more power chords.
Courtney Love
36.
At a certain point, I should start to pay attention and make sure I'm not damaging my vocal chords, because I enjoy using them a lot.
Martina Sorbara
37.
I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.
Andrew Bird
38.
There are certain parts of chords that resolve things and tie a bow, and others that keep things open and unanswered.
Feist
39.
If something really strikes a chord with an audience, if it pops on TV, I don't mind watching it for a few minutes.
Billy Bob Thornton
40.
I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious.
Stephen King
42.
I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.
Joni Mitchell
43.
I just started off on my own by learning the regular chords then the barre chords. Then I'd lean the notes that would go with them.
Tommy Bolin
44.
I stopped going out and taking pills and I started hanging out and learning about flat eleven chords.
Jamie Lidell
45.
As an actor, you want as much variety as you can muster up. Otherwise you just keep playing the same chord over and over again.
Michelle Forbes
47.
I tend to hear rhythm and melody, chord-progressions, long before I hear words.
Zach Condon
48.
I could live inside a G major chord, with Grace, if she was willing.
Maggie Stiefvater
49.
I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes, and a melody, a vocal melody - if it works with that, then I feel it's written and there's something there.
David Byrne
50.
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 being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did.
Richard Rodney Bennett