Chords famous quotes

Why play a chord when you can play one note?
-- Alex Kapranos

#Play #Notes #Chords

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.
-- Andrew Bird

#Writing #Fit #Chords

Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open G chord I go right. That's how hard I play, and that's how a lot of my stage act has come about. I just go where the guitar takes me.
-- Angus Young

#Guitar #Play #Chords

I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
-- B. B. King

#Chords #Horrible

Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?
-- Billy Gibbons

#Guitar #Chords #Found

By adopting a certain physical posture, a resonant chord is struck in spirit.
-- Bruce Lee

#Spirit #Posture #Chords

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
-- Carla Bley

#Music #Taken #Chords

I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.
-- Dave Davies

#Chords

Yeah, I can read music and I know the names of chords.
-- Dave Navarro

#Names #Yeah #Chords

I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older.
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

#Priorities #Together #Chords

Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.
-- Fanny Crosby

#Breakup #Broken #Chords

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 #Chords

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 #Chords

I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing.
-- Janelle Monae

#Ipads #Use #Chords

When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.
-- Joe Strummer

#Ideas #Chords #Needed

We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.
-- John P. Kotter

#Stories #Hearing #Chords

All I have is this guitar, these chords and the truth.
-- Jon Bon Jovi

#Guitar #Chords

If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.
-- Lou Reed

#Three #Jazz #Chords

I could live inside a G major chord, with Grace, if she was willing.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Grace #Chords #Willing

But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives
-- Michael Hutchence

#Decision #Sticks #Chords

The lyrics, the strings, the chords, everything comes at the moment like a gift that is put right into your head and that's how I hear it.
-- Michael Jackson

#Moments #Chords #Strings

As an actor, you want as much variety as you can muster up. Otherwise you just keep playing the same chord over and over again.
-- Michelle Forbes

#Want #Actors #Chords

I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.
-- Mick Taylor

#Song #Remember #Chords

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.
-- Patti Smith

#Rocks #Enough #Chords

I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did.
-- Richard Rodney Bennett

#Chords #Composer

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

#Guitar #Crash #Chords

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

#Chords

Ive been playing swing chords for a long time.
-- Suzy Bogguss

#Swings #Long #Chords

Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off.
-- Woody Guthrie

#Guitar #Three #Chords

The total person sings not just the vocal chords.
-- E. M. Broner

#Singing Songs #Vocal Music #Chords

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

#Doe #Chords #Songwriting

I stopped going out and taking pills and I started hanging out and learning about flat eleven chords.
-- Jamie Lidell

#Pills #Going Out #Chords

At a certain point, I should start to pay attention and make sure I'm not damaging my vocal chords, because I enjoy using them a lot.
-- Martina Sorbara

#Attention #Pay #Chords

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

#Spirit #Chords #Certain

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 #Chords

I began to learn a lot of chords and rhythms. It was a bit boring at the time but came in very handy later on.
-- Alvin Lee

#Guitar #Boring #Chords

Every breath drawn by an individual who truly serves God will elicit a responsive chord from the universe around him.
-- Samson Raphael Hirsch

#Individual #Chords #Gods Will

A chord is just the name of a sound.
-- Lester Bowie

#Names #Sound #Chords