Chords Quotes

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.

Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.

Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?

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.

You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.

By adopting a certain physical posture, a resonant chord is struck in spirit.

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

Every breath drawn by an individual who truly serves God will elicit a responsive chord from the universe around him.

If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.

Learn 2 chords and then get a good lawyer before learning the 3rd.

All I have is this guitar, these chords and the truth.

I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.

I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.

I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.

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

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."

I liked writing the negative ads more than - because it's more minor chords.

Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies.

Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!

There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.

Ive been playing swing chords for a long time.

As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses.

I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.

I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older.

Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.

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.

The total person sings not just the vocal chords.

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.

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.

I'd definitely like to see less twerking and more power chords.

Yeah, I can read music and I know the names of chords.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing.

Lionel [Richie] said, "Yeah, I learned chords and stuff playin' against your albums."

... there are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music.

I bid the chords sweet music make, And all must follow in my wake.

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.

There are certain parts of chords that resolve things and tie a bow, and others that keep things open and unanswered.

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.

If something really strikes a chord with an audience, if it pops on TV, I don't mind watching it for a few minutes.

I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious.

A chord is just the name of a sound.

I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.

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.

I stopped going out and taking pills and I started hanging out and learning about flat eleven chords.