Chords Quotes
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.
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In those days, I didn't know how guys like Clapton and Beck were getting that searing blues lead sound, so I developed my style to be rhythmic and chord-based, with simple lead lines that you could almost hum.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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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.
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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.
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Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.
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The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music.
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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.
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We were feeling desperate, We started writing songs; Question Mark would record everything we practiced. I came up with some chords, and Question Mark started singing Too Many Teardrops.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I tend to hear rhythm and melody, chord-progressions, long before I hear words.
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As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses.
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I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older.
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A, C, and G are the only chords any honest musician needs.
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Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping in that minor chord, disease. Say you are well, or all is well with you, And God shall hear your words and make them true.
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Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That's the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.
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I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.
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I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.
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You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around.
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I like really sparse electronics, lush arrangements, and interesting chord structures.
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The strangest part of Indian music is its lack of chords: There's no such thing as major or minor, and it's unusual to hear more than two different pitches at the same time.
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About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar.
