Chord Quotes

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

  

  Sid Vicious Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • Music
  • Pickup
  • Chord

• A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you may; will it be in the same way? With the same sympathies? With the same sentiments? Will the souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? Rarely, rarely!

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Dream
  • Souls
  • Sympathies

• Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears...wi th one chord.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Surrender
  • Note
  • Chord

• And Paul hits this chord, and I turn to him and say, 'That's it! Do that again!' In those days we really used to absolutely write like that - both playing into each other's noses.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Playing
  • Noses
  • Paul

• Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Life
  • Live
  • Film

• With the classical stuff, I've always been better at the big brushstrokes and broad textures than spending ages honing a chord, or tweaking a sample.

  

  Anna Meredith
  • Classical
  • Chord
  • Textures

• I had to learn chord shapes... I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.Mick Tay

  

  Mick Taylor The Rolling Stones
  • Learn
  • Shapes
  • Chord

• A chord is just the name of a sound.

  

  Lester Bowie
  • Sound
  • Chord

• Sometimes an unexpected chord change can be the difference between a good song and a great song.

  

  Gary Talley The Box Tops
  • Song
  • Change
  • Chord

• The stories strike a chord deep within us, ... They take us back home, back to our roots.

  

  Bob Myers
  • Home
  • Roots
  • Strike

• I played violin from when I was about eight to thirteen, so I could read a little bit, but if you put a piece of music in front of me now, I would probably know the notes, but not the timing, how they're supposed to be played, and I just don't know how to read chords. If I'd stuck with it, I'd probably have more jobs.

  

  Petra Haden
  • Music
  • Read
  • Chord

• I found that the same things I loved about performing were the things I liked about directing and creating a piece - striking a chord that was in tune with the world and was reflecting back what I saw, just from a different angle.

  

  Michael Arden
  • Different
  • Creating
  • Striking