Chords Quotes - Page 18

• I can talk about feelings, but I can't talk about why this chord on top of this chord sounds cool to me. It just makes me feel a certain way, and I like it.

  John Dieterich

  Feelings, Sound, Way

  "Deerhoof". Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I definitely had some moments, where, "Wow, these were some hard chords" on some gig.

  Jon Gordon

  Gigs, Wow, Moments

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• Lionel [Richie] said, "Yeah, I learned chords and stuff playin' against your albums."

  Miles Davis

  Stuff, Albums, Said

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• I can't write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don't never write for myself.

  Miles Davis

  Writing, Play, People

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• Trump - the American people have spoken. He definitely touched a chord in this country. I don't think we as a country can ignore that. There are people in this country that felt their voices were not heard, and now I think everybody is listening.

  Gayle King

  Country, Thinking, Voice

  Source: wwd.com

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• There are all kinds of things that can be done. You can change rhythms, you can change chords, you can change whole concepts. But it will only work, on a record or in a performance, if you can make the people buy it.

  Nina Simone

  People, Done, Records

  Source: www.musicismysanctuary.com

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• I don't really break into too many solos. But I've never been a super-big solo guy anyway. I like to make the main melody guitar lines of the songs as cool and interesting as possible without just strumming chords. I like to have chords intertwined with riffs here and there, but I'll do the riffs and the solos where the bottom will drop out. Basically, I do everything for the song, I don't do it for the solo glory. Kids aren't really into that anymore for some reason.

  Mark Tremonti

  Song, Kids, Guitar

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• People don't tend to notice, but in the past 10 years especially there's been a lot of growth in how I write songs and what goes into them. You can listen to Mountain Goats from 1991 to 2007 and never hear a seventh chord. In 2007 or 2008, I started working on the piano to grow as a songwriter. I started throwing major sevens in and sixes and more interesting stuff.

  John Darnielle

  Song, Writing, Past

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Kind of the critical acclaim of this movie [La La Land] is that it's striking a chord with the public in a way that has been really beautiful and powerful.

  John Legend

  Beautiful, Powerful, Land

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• I'm not very good at playing piano, so I usually hit chords with my right hand. And those chords came, and I was just singing a little bit.

  Mac DeMarco

  Hands, Piano, Singing

  Source: lagroupie.tumblr.com

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• When I came to the United States in 1975 I was eleven, and within a few months my voice broke. I recited commercials like a parrot and I got yelled at quite often. My older brother one night said, "You speak so much English when you're not supposed to, that's why your vocal chords shattered. Now you sound like a duck." I thought it was true. I went from this sweet-voiced Vietnamese kid who spoke Vietnamese and French to this craggy-voiced teenager.

  Andrew Lam

  Sweet, Brother, Teenager

  "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• I guess the approach to song writing for me so far has been to use more chords and less math.

  Mick Barr

  Song, Writing, Math

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and power chords.

  Colin Marston

  Black, Musical, Sound

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The program I use is called MED Soundstudio. It's basically a column of numbers that relate to pitch, duration, the type of sound. If I want to play a chord, I have to press keys on a keyboard - like a computer keyboard, on my Amiga - that relate to sharps and flats, note by note.

  Max Tundra

  Play, Numbers, Keys

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I stopped going out and taking pills and I started hanging out and learning about flat eleven chords.

  Jamie Lidell

  Pills, Going Out, Eleven

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• By adopting a certain physical posture, a resonant chord is struck in spirit.

  Unknown

  Spirit, Certain, Posture

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• What I'm trying to produce is the visual equivalent of the chord change that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.

  Rian Hughes

  Hair, Design, Trying

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• People are being more ­experimental. I hear chords being played that really haven't been on the radio. I love that. I go to my kids' school and see kids playing in bands. It is a sign of what's to come.

  Greg Kurstin

  School, Kids, People

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• If something really strikes a chord with an audience, if it pops on TV, I don't mind watching it for a few minutes.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Mind, Tvs, Minutes

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I played violin from when I was about eight to thirteen, so I could read a little bit, but if you put a piece of music in front of me now, I would probably know the notes, but not the timing, how they're supposed to be played, and I just don't know how to read chords. If I'd stuck with it, I'd probably have more jobs.

  Petra Haden

  Jobs, Eight, Pieces

  Source: therumpus.net

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• From the age of 16 on, I brought my guitar everywhere. I just fell in love with learning the guitar, and I wanted to learn songs and chords, and that led to wanting to start a band, and to wanting to do our first show.

  Donavon Frankenreiter

  Song, Guitar, Age

  Source: www.hamptons.com

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• In early 1999, I was watching TV, when I came across a story on Afghanistan. It was a story about the Taliban and the restrictions they were imposing on the Afghan people, most notably women. At some point in the story, there was a casual reference to them having banned the game of kite fighting. This detail struck a personal chord with me, as I had grown up in Kabul flying kite with my friends.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Fighting, Games, People

  "GeekDad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of The Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. September 30, 2011.

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• I've spent three hours with Snoop Dogg, talking about how he loved [Peaky Blinders series]. And David Bowie loved it. The late Leonard Cohen was a fan. It struck a chord with various people that I didn't think it would.

  Steven Knight

  Thinking, Talking, People

  Source: collider.com

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

  Roger Scruton

  Lines, May, Architecture

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• Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book- those invisible listeners with whom we wish to strike a sympathetic chord.

  Ruskin Bond

  Book, Wish, Saving

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