Chords Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• I try to be prepared for the moment, through understanding, and being warmed up, knowing all about chords and scales, so I don't even have to think and I can get right to what it is I want to say.

  Pat Metheny

  Thinking, Knowing, Understanding

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• As a melody instrument player, it's all about getting from one note to the next, and those intervals and how you navigate your way through these vertical structures of chords. You realize that everything's moving forward and it's all linear.

  David Sanborn

  Moving, Player, Way

  "Jazzin’ Around: Conversations With David Sanborn, Lee Ritenour and Kurt Elling". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• In those days, I didn't know how guys like Clapton and Beck were getting that searing blues lead sound, so I developed my style to be rhythmic and chord-based, with simple lead lines that you could almost hum.

  John Fogerty

  Simple, Guy, Style

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• Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody with lumpen rock drumming and power chords.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Rocks, India, Drumming

  "Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood and Shye Ben Tzur Talk Junun Project". Interview with Jazz Monroe, pitchfork.com. December 3, 2015.

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

  Jonny Greenwood

  Scales, Collapse, Western

  "Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood and Shye Ben Tzur Talk Junun Project". Interview with Jazz Monroe, pitchfork.com. December 3, 2015.

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• The strangest part of Indian music is its lack of chords: There's no such thing as major or minor, and it's unusual to hear more than two different pitches at the same time.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Two, Different, Unusual

  "Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood and Shye Ben Tzur Talk Junun Project". Interview with Jazz Monroe, pitchfork.com. December 3, 2015.

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• On just a personal level, since I was little, I've loved fairytales, especially this one, because it is about what goes into making a beast a beast. Do you start as a beast? Do you turn into a beast because of the way that people treat you? I think it's something that is really universal and hit a chord with me when I was little, and so, hopefully we can explore some of that.

  Brian Wayne Peterson

  Thinking, People, Levels

  Source: collider.com

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• Just because it's a relationship, and it's based on soppy stuff, it doesn't mean you can't make intellectual decisions about it. Sometimes you just have to, otherwise you'll never get anywhere. That's where I've been going wrong. I've been letting the weather and my stomach muscles and a great chord change in a Pretenders single make up my mind for me, and I want to do it for myself.

  Nick Hornby

  Mean, Weather, Decision

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• The music has gotten thick. Guys give me tunes and they're full of chords. I can't play them...I think a movement in jazz is beginning away from the conventional string of chords, and a return to emphasis on melodic rather than harmonic variation. There will be fewer chords but infinite possibilities as to what to do with them.

  Miles Davis

  Thinking, Play, Giving

  "Miles on Miles: Interviews and Encounters with Miles Davis". Book by Paul Maher, ‎Michael K. Dorr, p. 18, 2009.

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• I recorded with Hank (Jones) a number of times, usually on dates where Milt was unavailable, and I thought he was the perfect pianist. He had a beautiful touch, knew all the best ways around the chord changes, and swung mightily. And he brought an air of cheerful competence to every date, making us all feel that it would be possible to make some very good music that day.

  Bill Crow

  Beautiful, Piano, Numbers

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• 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

  Notes, My Own

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• I probably would've kept slogging on that same chord change, because there's a tendency to have that happen. You get into the cadence in your mind, and it's hard to make the kind of left turn that you probably need to keep it really interesting.

  Aimee Mann

  Interesting, Mind, Needs

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• When I first started, I worked with three chords in every bar, but I found that tied me down - I'm not a chord-change writer, I'm a songwriter.

  Neil Diamond

  Three, Bars, Firsts

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• My love is new music, I tend to go and see a lot of bands, while [co-producer] Mark Cooper spends his time reading the press. It's often the new acts that strike a chord, because they aren't seen on other shows.

  Jools Holland

  Reading, Love Is, Band

  "The taste-makers" by Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2005.

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• I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't. And clearly the ones who wrote music were more superior human beings in his mind. So he kind of nudged me and sort of prodded me into it. I picked it up slowly. Then I learned more about chords and harmony and I just kept adding to that. One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.

  Bill Bruford

  Writing, Player, Two

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• It's like I'll sit down and put my hands on the piano or the guitar, and then I'll hear a sound or I'll feel a chord that will resonate and then I'll get something happening in my voice. My voice is like a car that I get into and drive but I don't know where I'm going. And I record everything. And often, I sort of get into a state, a creative state that is, where I'm just feeling around melodically, and playing things off the top of my head. Then I go back and listen to it and for the first time, hear what I just did. It's like Elvis has left the building while the thing is happening.

  Beth Nielsen Chapman

  Voice, Piano, Guitar

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