Top 420 Chords Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
One has to sing from the heart to let it touch the right chords. Unless you enjoy the song, your listener will not either.
I'm trying to make paintings like giant musical chords, with a polyphony of colours that is nuts but works.
I learned some chords and I started watching anybody I could, once I really got into it.
The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony.
I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.
Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.
I'll write and make chords with my voice sometimes if I don't have an instrument even though it takes a million times longer.
I can put some chords together and maybe write a song, but I'm learning every day. And that's the fun part.
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
The vocal chords are like most other muscles that need to be worked out.
I consider descending chromatic lines and arpeggiated chords basic skills learned by any student of the guitar.
Lately, I love creating ideas on my acoustic guitar. I sit in my living room for hours trying different chords.
If the chords change a lot over the course of a song, it's better to stay within the same melodic structure.
I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
I guess the approach to song writing for me so far has been to use more chords and less math.
... there are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music.
We didn't want to be another post-Libertines band singing about London and playing chords.
Lionel [Richie] said, "Yeah, I learned chords and stuff playin' against your albums."
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.
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
I really love country music, just this idea of three chords and the truth.
There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.
Singing in multiple voices, especially Oscar's, can make my vocal chords tired.
All them weird chords which don't mean a thing...you got no melody to remember, and no beat to dance to
I always find that, when it comes to writing songs, if the melody and the chords are working, we're 90 per cent there.
I know a few chords on the guitar, but I wouldn't be able do a show or even be part of a jam session with one.
When I first started, I worked with three chords in every bar, but I found that tied me down - I'm not a chord-change writer, I'm a songwriter.
You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around.
Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies.
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.
I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.
I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing.
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.
A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.
Sin hath broke the world's sweet peace--unstrung
Th' harmonious chords to which the angels sung.
He was a god of rock. He nearly solved all the world's problems with nothing but power chords and anguished cries into a microphone.
Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.
Teachers want to teach you theory, and that's fine, but when it comes to rock and roll, you only need three chords. There's something comforting about that.
The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
With 'Under the Pressure,' I just found two chords I liked, and built it up, did like a ten-minute drum pattern.
As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses.
Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off.
Learn 2 chords and then get a good lawyer before learning the 3rd.
I knew if I wanted to improvise over chord changes, I'd have to figure out all the scales that went with all those chords.
All of my acoustic playing came from my songwriting. All of the chords I've learned and all of the voicings I play them in are a direct result of composing.
I don't read music. I refuse to learn how to do that. I barely know half the chords I'm playing. I like being naive when it comes to that.
Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.
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.
Young people are still experiencing the thrill of three chords and over-amplified guitars. They always will.
My voice has definitely been my plus point and many compliment me for the power of my vocal chords.
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.
The rhythm of sitar cannot be created with chords of guitar and vice versa as both the instruments have a distinct purpose in music.
All my songs were made at the end of the neck, 'farmer's corner' chords.
I wanted to have absolute control over my music - from the chords and the voicings of the songs to the arrangements and the production.
I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over.
Stravinsky influenced film music in general - those stabbing chords and rhythms from 'The Rite of Spring.'
I find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be a lead guitarist.
