Chords Quotes

Chords Quote of the day

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.

The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony.

Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's it. Just using notes differently.

The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music.

Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.

My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of chords in one song. If I find another chord I leave it for another song.

My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.

Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just about the most important aspect of playing guitar

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

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

There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.

There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.

All them weird chords which don't mean a thing...you got no melody to remember, and no beat to dance to

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.

You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.

About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar.

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.

When God is involved, anything can happen. Be open. Stay that way. God has a beautiful way of bringing good vibrations out of broken chords.

Everything you do is different, and you find different chords in every character that you play that strike true with you.

I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to.

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

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

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.

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

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.

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

It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords

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.

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

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

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.

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

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."

Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that space with all them chords and sounds he was playing then.

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

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.

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

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

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

I can put some chords together and maybe write a song, but I'm learning every day. And that's the fun part.

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

Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.

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