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I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.

Miguel

Song, Writing, Simple

"Miguel: the slow-burn success of a new R&B superstar". Interview with Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2013.

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A, C, and G are the only chords any honest musician needs.

Kim Deal

Musician, Needs, Honest

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I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

Patti Smith

Real, Guitar, Play

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A chord is just the name of a sound.

Lester Bowie

Names, Sound

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Young people are still experiencing the thrill of three chords and over-amplified guitars. They always will.

Horace Panter

Guitar, People, Three

Source: louderthanwar.com

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I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.

Cristin Milioti

School, Aunt, Simple

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

Leonard Cohen

Three, Said, Journalist

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Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.

Maurice Saatchi

Creativity, Artist, Musician

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I am the consequence of a particular type of demographic movement, one that has always involved paying a high price. But I don't know much about styles or genres. I only know notes and chords.

Concha Buika

Style, Movement, Notes

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Before I went on stage at Kyle Hutton's Real Life Real Music Festival, I heard one of his songwriting students, Abbey Hirvela, sing; she was in the poet's saddle and riding that horse like she owned it. She was good! I probably ruined her by showing her how to make an E chord without the 3rd though.

Ray Wylie Hubbard

Horse, Real, Riding

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True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In this way, the U.S. can provide and express ideals that strike a chord in humans everywhere - a declaration of independence on behalf of all the peoples of the world.

Maurice Saatchi

Independence, World, Way

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It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.

Regina Spektor

Song, Real, Writing

Interview with Noel Murray, music.avclub.com. June 21, 2006.

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Bill Gates recently picked up the ukulele. And Warren Buffett is a huge ukulele fan. I even got to strum a few chords with Francis Ford Coppola. It blows my mind that these people, who have everything in the world they could want, have picked up the ukulele and found a little bit of joy.

Jake Shimabukuro

Blow, Ukulele, People

FaceBook post by Jake Shimabukuro from Oct 29, 2014

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It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song.

George Harrison

Song, Play, Matter

Song: Only a Northern song

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

Dave Navarro

Names, Yeah, Knows

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

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This Lullaby is only a few words, a simple run of chords, quiet here in this spare room, but you can hear it, hear it, wherever you may go, even if I let you down, this lullaby plays on.

Sarah Dessen

Running, Simple, Play

Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.231, Penguin

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Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.

Nile Rodgers

Music, Real, Guitar

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Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.

Joe Elliott

Song, Together, Bangs

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Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord, which a piece of acknowledged fiction misses. It is to touch this chord that some authors have done everything they could to give you the impression that they are telling the plain truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

Giving, Missing, Fiction

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As soon as you get off stage, that's the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords are receptive to any kind of germ.

Anita Baker

Kissing, People, Singers

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I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.

Dan Auerbach

Dog, Brother, Guitar

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I love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos.

Jon Lord

Use, Way, Classical Music

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I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.

Jeff Lynne

Song, Nice, Trying

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My sister played the piano. She’s two years older than me, and I always wanted to play something. So my grandmother got the guitar for me, and showed me a couple of chords to start off. And then I got me a book. Next thing you know, I was playing along with sister.

Willie Nelson

Couple, Book, Grandmother

Interview with Woody Harrelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 12, 2015.

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