Chords Quotes - Page 12

• I'm taking drama classes, they say I'm a natural actress. I think it's just because I talk a lot. I'm also learning how to play guitar and piano. Piano is really hard though. My dad is teaching me and I just get so confused because the chords are so different, but by learning I hope to be able to be a songwriter as well.

  Lindsay Pagano

  Dad, Confused, Drama

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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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• 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 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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• Even now, hearing the debates about Medicaid, the suggestion that somehow we could save money by cutting Medicaid strikes a chord in me personally. It seems there are some other ways we can save money rather than making it harder for people like my aunt to get health care.

  Josh Earnest

  Cutting, Aunt, People

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• I don't think my playing style has really changed over the years; it's just gotten better. I can hear the improvement in comparing older records and later records. I'm referring to soloing ability, to having a better sound, to knowing chords better, and getting rhythmically stronger. It also has to do with ideas - learning how to edit your ideas and being better able to follow ideas out to a logical conclusion.

  Gary Bartz

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

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• Trios aren't really geared for slide unless you're gonna play chords, or play that simple George Thorogood style. It gets pretty thin when you play single note lines.

  James Hetfield

  Simple, Play, Style

  "Metallica Meets Gov’t Mule". Interview with Alan Paul, alanpaul.net. February 24, 2016.

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• Donald Trump has been practicing the chords of reality politics for 11 years doing reality television. And so he's clearly the frontrunner and he is clearly dominating. But I still believe in some old rules.

  Hugh Hewitt

  Believe, Reality, Years

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• I feel like the only person who has a chance against Alejandro González Iñárritu is Lenny Abrahamson. [The Room] was very awkward, very odd, very uncomfortable as it should have been. And then it became very beautiful. It tugged all the emotional chords beautifully.

  Bun B

  Beautiful, Emotional, Should Have

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• I'd definitely like to see less twerking and more power chords.

  Courtney Love

  Twerking

  "Courtney Love: I wrote the Kurt Cobain 'bitch with zits' note". Interview With Charlotte Richardson Andrews, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2014.

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• Branding is not merely about differentiating products; it is about striking emotional chords with consumers. It is about cultivating identity, attachment, and trust to inspire customer loyalty. Chinese brands score low on attributes such as “sophisticated,” “desirable,” “innovative,” “friendly,” and “trustworthy.”

  Nirmalya Kumar

  Loyalty, Emotional, Attachment

  "Can You Name a Chinese Brand?" by Nirmalya Kumar, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2013.

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• I think minimalism is something I just got attracted to just in general because I like the empty space, if you think about it, like there's a lot of empty space. So there are sounds there, there are chords, like coordinates, to sort of tell you where the emotion is going, but then it leaves so much room for the voice to do other things.

  Pharrell Williams

  Thinking, Voice, Space

  "Transcript: Pharrell Williams In Conversation With NYU Tisch & NPR Music". Interview with Jason King, www.npr.org. October 29, 2015.

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• What I love about lyrics is that they don't have to be very complicated. A good sentence over a great chord with a good melody - all you need is that one moment.

  Jason Schwartzman

  Needs, Complicated, Moments

  "Egyptian Protest Slogans". Interview with Ross Simonini, believermag.com. September 1, 2011.

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• We weren't straight-A students. We didn't start playing until we were teenagers, and we started playing rock and roll and punk rock - power chords - before we ever thought we would play folk music. So virtuosity was just never in my reach.

  Ketch Secor

  Teenager, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• Playing inside the changes means playing enough of the important notes of the chord progression at important times. A good solo might be very free, but every once in a while it loops or hooks into an essential note that describes the harmonic change.

  Chuck Israels

  Mean, Important, Essentials

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• I started wanting to inject more colorful chord phrasings from the music I actually grew up on, which was Hendrix, Rolling Stones, and stuff like that.

  Bucky Pope

  Rolling, Stones, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• To play with a band all of the time, just about nightly, was good for me because I wrote lots of arrangements and I got a lot of my transposition and chords ironed out.

  Allen Toussaint

  Play, Band, Arrangements

  "'Fresh Air' Remembers Hit Songwriter, Pianist And Producer Allen Toussaint". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 13, 2015.

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• To charm, to strengthen, and to teach: these are the three great chords of might.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Three, Might, Charm

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1862). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.181

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• A good song is a nice set of chords and some good lyrics; a great song is a song that reinvents itself over time. That you can always find something interesting in the more you listen to it - it keeps revealing something to you.

  Bryce Dessner

  Song, Nice, Interesting

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• Sometimes it starts with a random lyric idea that sets the tone for the whole song. Chords and sounds build from the lyric and rhythm, kind of. Sometimes it's a track I fall I love with... but writing my own songs, I rarely write on tracks.

  Tove Lo

  Song, Fall, Writing

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• Like the ability of all the musicians to end the song at the right time. Or when it's time for a chord change, but nobody knows what the chord should be, and you all, you know, it all just changes, magically, at the same time. It's when you pick up your phone to call someone and that person is calling you.

  Larkin Grimm

  Song, Phones, Musician

  "Swinging Modern Sounds #35: The Location Of The Soul". Interview with Rick Moody, therumpus.net. April 20, 2012.

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• I really write emotionally so whatever mood I'm in, or if a chord hits me a certain way that's what I'll go off of.

  Zac Farro

  Writing, Way, Mood

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