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• A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music.

  Charlie Daniels

  Crazy, Guitar, Two

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• 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.

  Utada Hikaru

  Song, Sound, Details

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

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• I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord.

  Neil Young

  Workout, Thinking, Keys

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• When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.

  Carla Bley

  Play, People, Horny

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• In some types of music I'm working out all the chords one bar at a time - the whole structure, because it's about that. And there are other pieces which are really about - okay, the melody is going to start here and play through to here.

  Danny Elfman

  Play, Work Out, Bars

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

  David Bowie

  Music, Sometimes

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• The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dream, Nature, Memories

  Harold Holzer, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Lincoln Mailbag: America Writes to the President, 1861-1865”, p.7, SIU Press

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• I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

  Willie Nelson

  Art, Hard Times, Thinking

  "Willie Nelson Opens Up About Music, Marriages And Marijuana" by Marianne Horner, theboot.com. June 28, 2010.

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• I understand I'm supposed to be feminine and dainty, but I'm not. There are two sides to the coin. People are more impressed with things that I do because they almost treat you as if you're handicapped if you're a woman... people can be impressed that I can play a few chords on the guitar.

  Kesha

  Guitar, Play, Two Sides

  "She's a walking, talking living dollar". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.

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• I love listening to Radio Head's 'Everything in its Right Place' because it's all major chords, it makes you feel really good. It's soothing, it's got a beautiful voice, crazy textures. When I'm down I listen to that song and it really makes me feel good.

  Casey Abrams

  Beautiful, Song, Crazy

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• Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears...wi th one chord

  Carlos Santana

  Surrender, Disappear, Notes

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• We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Friendship, Memories

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.

  Mick Taylor

  Song, Remember, Songwriters

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

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

  Carla Bley

  Music, Taken, Jazz

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• You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.

  Sid Vicious

  Picks

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• Those three chords were part of my life - G, F, Bb - yeh, it is, it is, and I can't help noticing it. But there have been other things nearly as close to it which people haven't noticed, other things we have done.

  Ray Davies

  People, Three, Done

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• 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.

  Charlie Parker

  Play, Lines, Progression

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• I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.

  Joan Jett

  Song, Thinking, Rocks

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

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• 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.

  Maurice Gibb

  Writing, Robins, Add

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

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• Ive been playing swing chords for a long time.

  Suzy Bogguss

  Swings, Long, Long Time

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• I tried several times to get the song right. The tune and the chords that I started with, there really wasn't anywhere else it could go. I stopped fighting it and let it take me away.

  Nik Kershaw

  Song, Fighting, Tunes

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• The jazz chord substitutions in a country song... that was another thing that bent people's ears. I guess that my favorites are the unique ones. It's not how fast you play. It's that unique blending of different stuff I'm most proud of.

  Brian Setzer

  Country, Song, Unique

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• I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.

  Ace Frehley

  Guitar, House, One Day

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• I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the basic seed, so it's not very productive to come in with nothing.

  Billy Corgan

  Ideas, Looks, Band

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• the better angels of our nature

  Abraham Lincoln

  Angel, Civil War, Apocalypse

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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