Chords Quotes

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  Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Inspiring, Karma, Good Life

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

  Lou Reed

  Play, Trying, Joking Around

  FaceBook post by Lou Reed from Apr 27, 2012

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

  Lou Reed

  Two, Three, Velvet Underground

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

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• You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

  Frank Zappa

  Beauty, Writing, Atheism

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• Country music is three chords and the truth.

  Harlan Howard

  Music, Country, Inspiration

  "Country Scribe Harlan Howard Dies" by Andrew Dansby, www.rollingstone.com. March 5, 2002.

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

  Pharrell Williams

  Air, Keyboards, Canvas

  FaceBook post by Pharrell Williams from Apr 10, 2012

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• I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

  Kate Chopin

  Wind, Tree, Earth

  Kate Chopin (1974). “The Storm And Other Stories with THE AWAKENING”

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• Sometimes an unexpected chord change can be the difference between a good song and a great song.

  Gary Talley

  Song, Differences, Unexpected

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• Most beginners want to learn lead because they think it's cool .. consequently, they never really develop good rhythm skills .. since most of a rock guitarists time is spent playing rhythm, it's important to learn to do it well .. learning lead should come after you can play solid backup and have the sound of the chords in your head

  Eddie Van Halen

  Funny, Inspiring, Music

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• I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a few times, and I'd walk home and find a fax in my machine and it would match the music in my head

  Duncan Sheik

  Home, Fax Machines, Progression

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

  Robert Burns

  Thrill, Woe, Pleasure

  Robert Burns, P. Austin Nuttall (1866). “The poetical works of Robert Burns”, p.214

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• 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.

  David Bowie

  Mean, Want, Way

  "Rock's Heathen Speaks". Livewire interview, www.concertlivewire.com. June 16, 2002.

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• I had to learn chord shapes... I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.

  Mick Taylor

  Book, Shapes, Kind

  The Artist Shop IRC Chat, www.artist-shop.com. April 18, 1999.

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

  Lou Reed

  Three, Jazz, Ifs

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• The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

  Albert Camus

  Silence, Sound, Ears

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• 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.

  Brian Eno

  Cutting, Guitar, Play

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• Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Play, Jazz

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• Have you ever heard the earth breath?

  Kate Chopin

  Clever, Earth, Branches

  Kate Chopin (1974). “The Storm And Other Stories with THE AWAKENING”

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• But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives

  Michael Hutchence

  Decision, Sticks, Gamer

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Priorities, Together, Disturbed

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• Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

  Keanu Reeves

  Live Your Life, Going Away, Months

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• There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it.

  Jimmy Rushing

  Names, Differences, New Orleans

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• Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.

  Ville Valo

  Song, Heart, Talking

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• The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.

  Vince Gill

  Mom, Baseball, Dad

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• Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.

  Fanny Crosby

  Break Up, Breakup, Broken

  Fanny Crosby (1915). “Fanny Crosby's Story of Ninety-four Years”

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