Chords Quotes - Page 10

• I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it.

  Bradford Cox

  Writing, Guitar, Play

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• At a certain point, I should start to pay attention and make sure I'm not damaging my vocal chords, because I enjoy using them a lot.

  Martina Sorbara

  Attention, Pay, Should

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When I'm playing music I'm usually not thinking of surfing, just because I'm usually thinking about the chords and the lyrics, and sometimes that messes me up 'cause you'll start thinking, "Wait, how am I doing this?" But when I'm surfing, I'm usually thinking about music - whether it's an idea for a new song, or just singing a song in my head.

  Jack Johnson

  Song, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: jackjohnsonweb.yaia.com

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• If you are having trouble making a chord, get a book, that is how I learned. There are guitar tuning apps so you can tune your guitar, and just learn how to play along with your records. And it's great to be able to play along with another musician. That is like trial by fire.

  Joan Jett

  Book, Play, Fire

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. October 7, 2013.

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• There seemed to be a sense about Sarah [Harmer] even back then.She was obviously a quick study. I remember going to the Harmer farmhouse and sitting around the pool, and Sarah had a guitar. Maybe I knew four chords, but she already knew five. After doing 600 gigs that week, I would sing with her in a ragged voice, and she had the voice of a bird.

  Gordon Downie

  Guitar, Voice, Bird

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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

  Tony Iommi

  Lawyer, Good Lawyer

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• Sometimes, I actually end up doing three or four different versions of one song, and sometimes, those versions can be done very differently. They can be very laid back, downtempo, or sometimes the same song can be quite uptempo. But it is always the same melody and chord progressions.

  Trentemøller

  Song, Laid Back, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The soul of our music, The Monkees' music, lies somewhere inbetween the 1 1/2 , the 2 1/2, the 3 3/4 and th giant C-major chord on the piano!

  Frank Zappa

  Lying, Piano, Soul

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• Not only do you need great lyrics, a great message, a great story, great vocals, great chords... you also need great instrumentation, great editing, great sonics, great mixing, and great mastering. It all comes together to make something truly great, and I think each element combines together to create a powerful impact on the consumer.

  Joey Sturgis

  Powerful, Thinking, Impact

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• In the Air Force, I had an old Wilcox Gay recorder, and I used to hear guitar runs on that recorder going (vocalizing) like the chords on "I Walk The Line." And I always wanted to write a love song using that theme, that tune.

  Johnny Cash

  Running, Song, Writing

  Source: wrvo.org

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• What happened was I was invited to meet Tom [Hardy] to discuss a project that he had in his mind about an adventurer who returns to England from Africa with secrets and with a history, and the original idea was set some 80 years later than it is now. But in the conversation I really took to the idea and I'd wanted for a while to set something in 1830 and 1840 in London, so it struck a chord.

  Steven Knight

  Years, Ideas, Secret

  Source: deadline.com

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

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Writing, Negative, Minors

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The white music was melodic and pretty, and you had beautiful women's voices like Gogi Grant and even the Andrews Sisters. Then I went directly to rhythm and blues, which had beautiful voices but not much melody in particular and pretty much the same chord pattern. I loved it, I was entrenched in it, but then folk music came in the middle of that for me, and made its own path. And it was part of the rebellion against bubblegum music, or music that is pretty but doesn't say anything.

  Joan Baez

  Beautiful, Voice, White

  Source: www.azcentral.com

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• I didn't go to guitar school and I don't know how to play chords, but I can do it in my own way and I think sometimes that will piss off some guitar players who sit around playing their stuff all day long and then there are people who like that.

  Marilyn Manson

  School, Player, Thinking

  Source: archive.azcentral.com

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• The melodies are always the most important part to me. I am pulled more to the groove than the chord progression. After you find the groove, you find the most simple chord progressions and then sit inside that groove.

  Dave Matthews

  Simple, Important, Progression

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• I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious.

  Stephen King

  Inspiration, Strikes, Subconscious

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen to unstructured, amelodic ambient music, but I prefer no music. I don't need silence - I can write just about anywhere - but music is a major distraction.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Song, Writing, Silence

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• I really got into psych because everything has a really good groove to it and it's nicely spaced out, but ultimately they are just cool pop songs with a little something else that makes them special and unique. They are interesting and have another dimension to them besides a three chord change.

  Mike Romano

  Song, Psych, Unique

  Source: auralstates.com

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• On the top of the head is a Chakra - Sahasradala or the thousand-petalled lotus. There is a Chakra in the middle of the forehead between the eyebrows and one in the heart-centre. The region between the navel and head constitutes the mental field. From navel downward extending till the terminus of the spinal chord, mūlādhāra, is the seat of the vital.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Heart, Eyebrows, Lotuses

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• I remember writing a song when I was about 15. This is the one I can remember. I know I'd been writing poetry for a long time, since I was about eight, but I remember my first one that I put to chords. I was really trying to be like the psychedelic era Beatles, I was obsessed. All I could think about was Beatles and Hendrix. So I tried to write a psychedelic song, and it was the worst. I couldn't even... If I read it now - I still have the book somewhere - it makes me cringe out loud. It was just about psychedelic stuff.

  Ladyhawke

  Song, Book, Writing

  "Coup De Main x AllTracks | Ladyhawke". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. March 21, 2016.

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• I don't want to discredit people's opinions of me, but you talk about the violin or the cello or lead guitar where you have to learn tons of chords, that's much more difficult.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Guitar, People, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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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• I practice all the scales. Everyone should know lots of scales. Actually, I feel there are only scales. What is a chord, if not the notes of a scale hooked together?

  John McLaughlin

  Guitar, Practice, Together

  "The Guitar Handbook: A Unique Source Book for the Guitar Player - Amateur or Professional, Acoustic or Electrice, Rock, Blues, Jazz, or Folk". Book by Ralph Denyer (p. 114), 1982.

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• I personally kind of yearn to play characters who are complex and who strike a truthful chord in me and who are challenged in some way and, I guess, who kind of move through those challenges.

  Toni Collette

  Moving, Character, Play

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Sometimes it could be just during the day, when I'm riding in the car or on the plane. I'll hear somebody say something that strikes a chord and I write it down and write bars at a time, and then when I'm in the studio I go to those bars and I'm like, "Maybe I should make a song about this."

  Tyga

  Song, Writing, Car

  "ManCrushMonday: Tyga Wants You to Know There's A Lot More to Him Than Kylie Jenner". Interview with Erica Gonzales, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 30, 2016.

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