Chords Quotes - Page 11

• There are chords in the human heart- strange, varying strings- which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Heart, Passionate

  Charles Dickens (1863). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.430

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.

  Slash

  Vocabulary, Language, Failing

  "Slash". Book by Slash and Anthony Bozza, p. 29, 2007.

  41 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Moments, Strings

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Apr 26, 2017

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The total person sings not just the vocal chords.

  E. M. Broner

  Singing Songs, Vocal Music, Persons

  E. M. Broner (1982). “A weave of women”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Star Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil... The theme came from stories and ideas that have been around for thousands of years.

  George Lucas

  Loyalty, Stars, War

  10 Copy quote

• After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it a big bang. That would just be noise, and all that noise could create is more noise and a cosmos full of random particles. Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.

  Terry Pratchett

  Music, Two, Voice

  5 Copy quote

• I was the third one in my family born, and there are three notes in a chord, so that's how they came up with my name.

  Chord Overstreet

  Names, Three, My Family

  7 Copy quote

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

  Billy Gibbons

  Guitar, Found, Vans

  40 Copy quote

• Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off.

  Woody Guthrie

  Guitar, Three, Used

  80 Copy quote

• Chord substitution isn't some mysterious religious sect.

  Howard Roberts

  Funny, Inspiring, Religious

  9 Copy quote

• Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to have loud chords struck on them.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Girl, Luxury, Knowing

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 songs and playing with other young musicians, and getting out on stage... I was so impressed that my daughter Cheyenne goes to School of Rock on Long Island.

  Dee Snider

  Daughter, Song, School

  4 Copy quote

• Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.

  Terry Pratchett

  Matter, Facts, Chaos

  4 Copy quote

• 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, the top four strings of the guitar.

  Gary Burton

  Guitar, Style, Fans

  4 Copy quote

• 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 in a week and you're away.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Thinking, Play, Three

  7 Copy quote

• 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 two.

  Leonard Feather

  Two, Bird, Mind

  4 Copy quote

• 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. I am going to see if I cannot make the bitter warders sweet by the intensity of the love I bear you. I have had moments when I thought it would be wise to separate. Ah! Moments of weakness and madness! Now I see that would have mutilated my life, ruined my art, broken the musical chords which make a perfect soul. Even covered with mud I shall praise you, from the deepest abysses I shall cry to you. In my solitude you will be with me.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wise, Sweet, Art

  11 Copy quote

• ... 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

  Music, Heart, Strikes

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an idea that's attached to just a few chords. Other times, it's work.

  Ryan Adams

  Writing, Ideas, Phrases

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.

  Carl Jung

  Real, Writing, Silence

  20 Copy quote

• It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you.

  Darrell Hammond

  Play, Want, Tough

  4 Copy quote

• I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.

  Andrew Dost

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  "'We Are Young' and Odd Souls: Chatting With Mutemath’s Darren King and fun.’s Andrew Dost". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I sometimes try to write something that is actually really simple and I can't do it. So, then, it's not simple anymore. It's really hard and it gets all messed up. I sometimes sit down and try to write a song with just three chords and it doesn't work.

  Sondre Lerche

  Song, Writing, Simple

  6 Copy quote

• The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.

  Black Francis

  Song, Inspire, Firsts

  8 Copy quote

• To some degree. I think that I've always been very much of a chordal person. The chords are the foundation of everything. Some of Yes' stuff is very linear, albeit complex, but it's single-line melodic stuff. So I kind of had to wear a different cap working with Yes. It's not so much chord-based.

  Geoff Downes

  Thinking, Foundation, Degrees

  7 Copy quote