94 Chords Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

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One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz. Lou Reed

You Three Jazz Fine Pushing Chord Chords Two

A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world. Willie Nelson

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Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. Willie Nelson

Truth Song Three Country Chords

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

You More Off Than Showing Chords Play Two

Music is the language of the angels. You can hear just one or two chords, one or two notes of a song, and bam - you're right back there, you're right back in that moment, you're back in that day, you're back at that prom, you're back in the car. Delilah

Music Day You Song Language Car Back Prom One Or Two Angels Hear Just Just One Notes Moment Chords Right Right Back Two

I thrive on change. That's probably why my chord changes are weird, because chords depict emotions. They'll be going along on one key and I'll drop off a cliff, and suddenly they will go into a whole other key signature. That will drive some people crazy, but that's how my life is. Joni Mitchell

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I trust if your life is right, the right things will happen at the right time. If the chords are in harmony inside, I think other things will happen in the same way. That sounded highfalutin' to me once, but I believe it now. Gene Wilder

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

Three Jazz More Than Chords

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

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Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can. Jane Siberry

Music Thoughts Change First Few Gathering Back Our Books Scattered Taking Powerful Self-Help Where Senses Us Chords Core

I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords. Joni Mitchell

Charge Colors Get Same Juxtaposition Chords

When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song. Alicia Keys

Learning Song Writing First Favorite Backward Take Songs Learn Around Experimenting Them Then Chords Play Twist

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

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

Words Top Some Poetry Write Fit Then Chords

I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape. Andrew Dost

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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

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After 40 years of not playing, I admit I'm totally in love with my guitar. It's a Froggy Bottom acoustic steel string guitar. All I have to do is hit a couple of clean chords and the endorphins are right there. It's like the top of my head has come off and stardust and magic have fallen in. April Gornik

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Elvis came along when I was 10. My father gave me a bass ukulele. I taught myself how to play from a book to play some chords, so I was laying down 'Hound Dog' and things like that when I was 10 years old in 1955. That's the way I was. My ear was glued to the radio. I knew right then what I wanted to do. Bob Seger

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I tend to be freer on the piano. I never took guitar lessons, so my reach exceeds my grasp - what I hear in my head I don't always know how to play. But I love to play over something else. I'm not a self-starter. I get kind of bored with the same three folk chords that I know. Bonnie Raitt

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I like the sound of a Silvertone amp for myself. It's kind of cleaner guitar sounds when necessary, maybe a little less metal-sounding. But it really doesn't matter what amp I play through; it's really the way I voice chords and play guitar, how I strike the strings. Brian Bell

I live in Nashville, and I don't know how many people there would call me country. I really started in punk and anti-folk, but one of the reasons I originally gravitated towards country music is because most of those songs only use three chords. That was the easiest place for me to start, but I'm always trying to expand what I do. Caitlin Rose

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

Out Taken Like Parts Very Chords Lush

My course is about really working on a sheet of music. You work out the chords, which note complements the other, and how they will make the feeling of tension, the feeling of resolution. It's all about harmonization. That's more of the theory of notation and everything rather than practical. I don't play any instrument. Catriona Gray

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