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I don't sing now, because I had polio when I was 15, bulbar polio. This was when the epidemic was happening. And I was lucky that it didn't affect my lungs or my legs. It went to my face and kind of paralyzed my vocal chords, and I wasn't able to sing. And they said I was very lucky that I would get over it, which I did. Charlie Haden

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I studied and sang lot of jazz when I was growing up. I think that plays a little bit into some of the things I do vocally, notes that I pick in chords. Chris Young

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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

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

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I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar. Dan Auerbach

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When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do. Dave Matthews

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

Music Names Know Read Yeah Chords

All my songs were made at the end of the neck, 'farmer's corner' chords. David Berman

Made Corner Songs Were End Farmer Chords Neck

A lot of my friends are doctors, and the difference between me and them is there's no musical emergencies to pull me away from dinner. 'I need the chords for that song right now!' No, it can wait. David Bryan

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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

You Few Indie Could Couple Instruments Label Chords Needed

I used to feel that musical knowledge and emotional truth-telling were antagonistic. But I was too curious about chords and instruments and recording to stay locked in that mentality. David Longstreth

Knowledge Recording Too Musical Locked Stay About Mentality Emotional Feel Instruments Antagonistic Were Curious Used Chords

I like to start with an idea, but then again, I might be sitting at the keyboard, and just playing a bunch of chords that sound cool together, and something just inspires an idea from that. Diane Warren

Together Keyboard Something Inspires Idea Like Sound Bunch Sitting Just Again Might Then Cool Chords Start Playing

I knew from the start that I wanted my life to be about music. I taught myself the notes of the piano aged three, and then I spent the next few years deconstructing chords to figure out how to play them. At 11, I researched online the sort of music school I wanted to attend, printed out the details, and handed them to my parents. Ella Henderson

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The vocal chords are like most other muscles that need to be worked out. Engelbert Humperdinck

Other Out Vocal Like Most Worked Chords Muscles Need

When I was a kid, I used to listen to my Emerson radio late at night under the covers. I started by listening to jazz in the late 1940s and then vocal harmony groups like the Four Freshmen, the Modernaires and the Hi-Lo's. I loved Stan Kenton's big band - with those dark chords and musicians who could swing cool with individual sounds. Frankie Valli

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When you use a sample in a big way, when you loop something in the way I did with 'Runaround Sue,' it's like you have your chords and your melody and the quality of the song right there before you add your own production. It's like the song is already made, in a sense. G-Eazy

I could write a dozen different songs with the same three or four chords, but they'd all be entirely different. Gary Rossington

Three Entirely Could Write Songs Same Different Chords Dozen Four

My stepfather met my mother when I was seven years old, and he was a guitar player. So he caught me messing with his guitar, his electric guitar, and he tried to show me some chords, but my hands were too small. George Benson

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If you're supposed to be doing something, the spirits will come and help you. They have helped me out with lines I shouldn't have known, chords I shouldn't have known. Every once in a while I get lines from somewhere, and I think, I better write this down. Gil Scott-Heron

There are only so many chords and notes in the world. Jake Shears

World Only Notes Many Chords

Rock music was the death of jazz in a way. I know there's a bunch of people who say jazz isn't dead, but I mean, rock 'n roll, you play three chords to 20,000 people; jazz, you play 20,000 chords to three people. Jamie Hince

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If you don't make those vocal chords work, they'll go dormant on you. Jeffrey Osborne

Work You Those Vocal Make Go Dormant Chords

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