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• 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

  Guitar, Boring, Rhythm

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• So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.

  John Fahey

  Country, Song, Book

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• I think I always thought of the guitar as the vehicle to be able to make some musical idea up. The only appeal to learning more chords was having more chords to put into songs. I never got too wrapped up in becoming technically good. So writing songs happened pretty simultaneously with learning how to play the guitar.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Maybe sometimes things come to you that you never, in a thousand years, would have included. But they strike a chord, so grab it. Trust your ability to know what's true to it and what would carry you off into outer space.

  Joan Tewkesbury

  Years, Space, Sometimes

  Interview with Meredith Danluck, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 22, 2015.

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• When we appeal to the throne of grace we do so through Mary, honoring God by honoring His Mother, imitating Him by exalting her, touching the most responsive chord in the sacred heart of Christ with the sweet name of Mary.

  Robert Bellarmine

  Mother, Sweet, Heart

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• We weren't straight-A students. We didn't start playing until we were teenagers, and we started playing rock and roll and punk rock - power chords - before we ever thought we would play folk music. So virtuosity was just never in my reach.

  Ketch Secor

  Teenager, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• What I love about lyrics is that they don't have to be very complicated. A good sentence over a great chord with a good melody - all you need is that one moment.

  Jason Schwartzman

  Needs, Complicated, Moments

  "Egyptian Protest Slogans". Interview with Ross Simonini, believermag.com. September 1, 2011.

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• I think minimalism is something I just got attracted to just in general because I like the empty space, if you think about it, like there's a lot of empty space. So there are sounds there, there are chords, like coordinates, to sort of tell you where the emotion is going, but then it leaves so much room for the voice to do other things.

  Pharrell Williams

  Thinking, Voice, Space

  "Transcript: Pharrell Williams In Conversation With NYU Tisch & NPR Music". Interview with Jason King, www.npr.org. October 29, 2015.

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• Branding is not merely about differentiating products; it is about striking emotional chords with consumers. It is about cultivating identity, attachment, and trust to inspire customer loyalty. Chinese brands score low on attributes such as “sophisticated,” “desirable,” “innovative,” “friendly,” and “trustworthy.”

  Nirmalya Kumar

  Loyalty, Emotional, Attachment

  "Can You Name a Chinese Brand?" by Nirmalya Kumar, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2013.

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

  Courtney Love

  Twerking

  "Courtney Love: I wrote the Kurt Cobain 'bitch with zits' note". Interview With Charlotte Richardson Andrews, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2014.

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• I don't think my playing style has really changed over the years; it's just gotten better. I can hear the improvement in comparing older records and later records. I'm referring to soloing ability, to having a better sound, to knowing chords better, and getting rhythmically stronger. It also has to do with ideas - learning how to edit your ideas and being better able to follow ideas out to a logical conclusion.

  Gary Bartz

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

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• Playing inside the changes means playing enough of the important notes of the chord progression at important times. A good solo might be very free, but every once in a while it loops or hooks into an essential note that describes the harmonic change.

  Chuck Israels

  Mean, Important, Essentials

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• You don't try to duplicate certain things that other cats do, because you could never do it as well as they do. Nobody can get on that tenor saxophone and play like Trane, because he's the only one who can spell out chords and sound good when he does it.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Cat, Play, Trying

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• The greatest romance in the life of a lyricist is when the right word meets the right note; often, however, a Park Avenue phrase elopes with a Bleecker Street chord, resulting in a shotgun wedding and a quickie divorce.

  Yip Harburg

  Divorce, Romance, Phrases

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• To charm, to strengthen, and to teach: these are the three great chords of might.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Three, Might, Charm

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1862). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.181

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• 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

  Play, Band, Arrangements

  "'Fresh Air' Remembers Hit Songwriter, Pianist And Producer Allen Toussaint". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 13, 2015.

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• Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lasts, Taste, Century

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.370, Modern Library

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• A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mother, Heart, Widows

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.130, Vintage

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• There was this big skiffle craze happening for a while in England.... Everybody was in a skiffle group..All you needed was an acoustic Guitar, a washboard with thimbles for percussion, and a tea-chest- you know, the ones they used to ship tea from India- and you just put a broom handle on it and a bit of string, and you had a bass..you only needed two chords; Jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing. And I think that's basically where i've always been at. I'm just a skiffler, you know. Now I do posh skiffle, that's all it is.

  George Harrison

  Thinking, Guitar, Two

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• I really love country music, just this idea of three chords and the truth.

  Ragnar Kjartansson

  Country, Ideas, Three

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've never been a huge prog fan. My background is punk. My background is learning how to play a bar chord and listen to Discharge records when I was a kid.

  Justin Broadrick

  Kids, Play, Fans

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was pillaging a lot of music that had nothing to do with guitar playing, using a lot of strange tunings and voicings and chord structures that aren't really that natural to the guitar; I ended up developing a harmonic palette that's not particularly natural to the guitar because I was always trying to make my guitar sound like something else.

  Daniel Rossen

  Guitar, Always Trying, Sound

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The marvels of God are not brought forth from one's self. Rather, it is more like a chord, a sound that is played. The tone does not come out of the chord itself, but rather, through the touch of the musician. I am, of course, the lyre and harp of God's kindness.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Kindness, Self, Musician

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• If I'm looking really intense, it's not because I'm trying to be mystical. It's because I'm thinking '[Dagnabit], that was supposed to be a 7th chord'.

  Ed Robertson

  Thinking, Trying, Intense

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• Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above all, satisfies me without the others. Yet I ought to know that only music permits a succession of chords.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Writing, Expression, Choices

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