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• I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.

  Dave Davies

  Five

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• A chord is just the name of a sound.

  Lester Bowie

  Names, Sound

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• A, C, and G are the only chords any honest musician needs.

  Kim Deal

  Musician, Needs, Honest

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• Young people are still experiencing the thrill of three chords and over-amplified guitars. They always will.

  Horace Panter

  Guitar, People, Three

  Source: louderthanwar.com

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• I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

  Patti Smith

  Real, Guitar, Play

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• Bill Gates recently picked up the ukulele. And Warren Buffett is a huge ukulele fan. I even got to strum a few chords with Francis Ford Coppola. It blows my mind that these people, who have everything in the world they could want, have picked up the ukulele and found a little bit of joy.

  Jake Shimabukuro

  Blow, Ukulele, People

  FaceBook post by Jake Shimabukuro from Oct 29, 2014

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• Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.

  Alex Kapranos

  Party, Ideas, People

  "Bringing Sexy Back". Interview with Scott Frampton, www.marieclaire.com. January 6, 2008.

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• Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.

  Joe Elliott

  Song, Together, Bangs

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• As soon as you get off stage, that's the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords are receptive to any kind of germ.

  Anita Baker

  Kissing, People, Singers

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• Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.

  Roddy Doyle

  Children, Cutting, Adults

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• Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.

  Nile Rodgers

  Music, Real, Guitar

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• Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord, which a piece of acknowledged fiction misses. It is to touch this chord that some authors have done everything they could to give you the impression that they are telling the plain truth.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Giving, Missing, Fiction

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• Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about to harmonize.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Symphony, Mind, Tone

  "Curiosities of Literature". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1791.

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• Before I went on stage at Kyle Hutton's Real Life Real Music Festival, I heard one of his songwriting students, Abbey Hirvela, sing; she was in the poet's saddle and riding that horse like she owned it. She was good! I probably ruined her by showing her how to make an E chord without the 3rd though.

  Ray Wylie Hubbard

  Horse, Real, Riding

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• I am the consequence of a particular type of demographic movement, one that has always involved paying a high price. But I don't know much about styles or genres. I only know notes and chords.

  Concha Buika

  Style, Movement, Notes

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• I love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos.

  Jon Lord

  Use, Way, Classical Music

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• There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.

  Tori Amos

  Looks, World, Jazz

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• It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song.

  George Harrison

  Song, Play, Matter

  Song: Only a Northern song

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• I envy the music lovers hear. I see them walking hand in hand, standing close to each other in a queue at a theater or subway station, heads touching while they sit on a park bench, and I ache to hear the song that plays between them: The stirring chords of romance's first bloom, the stately airs that whisper between a couple long in love. You can see it in the way they look at each other... you can almost hear it. Almost, but not quite, because the music belongs to them and all you can have of it is a vague echo that rises up from the bittersweet murmur and shuffle of your own memories.

  Charles de Lint

  Song, Couple, Memories

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• There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.

  Frank Herbert

  Song, Heart, Torn

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• My sister played the piano. She’s two years older than me, and I always wanted to play something. So my grandmother got the guitar for me, and showed me a couple of chords to start off. And then I got me a book. Next thing you know, I was playing along with sister.

  Willie Nelson

  Couple, Book, Grandmother

  Interview with Woody Harrelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 12, 2015.

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• I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.

  Cristin Milioti

  School, Aunt, Simple

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• It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Real, Writing

  Interview with Noel Murray, music.avclub.com. June 21, 2006.

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• True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In this way, the U.S. can provide and express ideals that strike a chord in humans everywhere - a declaration of independence on behalf of all the peoples of the world.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Independence, World, Way

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