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• I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.

  Joanna Newsom

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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

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• I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!

  Ken Hensley

  Men, Thinking, Guitar

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• I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.

  Martin Gore

  Song, Emotional, Strikes

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• I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

  B. B. King

  Horrible

  "U2: Rattle and Hum". www.imdb.com. 1988.

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• To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

  Barry Lopez

  Nature, Hands, Rivers

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• About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar.

  Freddie Mercury

  Guitar, Years, Three

  "Queen on Fire - Live at the Bowl". Live album by Queen (Freddie Mercury's intro to the song "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"), October 25, 2004.

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• It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords

  Tommy Shaw

  Fun, Hands, Trying

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• I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

  Joni Mitchell

  Tragedy, Needs, Emotion

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• We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.

  Amy Tan

  People, Half, Firsts

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• I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.

  Earl Hines

  Memories, Thinking, Play

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• I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.

  Alan Price

  Guitar, Phrases, Use

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• For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating.

  Suzy Bogguss

  Writing, Swings, Intimidating

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• Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Guitar, Crash, Used

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• Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Love, Art, Philosophy

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1858). “Sketches of art, literature, and character [orig. publ. as Visits and sketches at home and abroad].”, p.50

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• When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don't vary your tones you can't get pretty tired of your own voice.

  Alan Ladd

  Tired, Air, Voice

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• It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.

  Ed O'Brien

  Long, Stuff, Computer

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• All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

  David Byrne

  Couple, Labels, Instruments

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• I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.

  Alvin Lee

  School, Guitar, Practice

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• If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.

  Woody Guthrie

  Play, Two, Ego

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• Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.

  Glenn Frey

  Guitar, I've Learned, Values

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• I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Love, Artist, Power

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• Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies.

  Flume

  Doe, Songwriting, Melody

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.

  Ouida

  Heart, Sadness, Sigh

  Ouida (1900). “Signa: A Story”

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• I play until my fingers are blue and stiff from the cold, and then I keep on playing. Until I'm lost in the music. Until I am the music--notes and chords, the melody and harmony. It hurts, but it's okay because when I'm the music, I'm not me. Not sad. Not afraid. Not desperate. Not guilty.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Hurt, Blue, Play

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.

  Miguel

  Song, Writing, Simple

  "Miguel: the slow-burn success of a new R&B superstar". Interview with Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2013.

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