Chords Quotes
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.
Edgar Allan Poe -
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.
John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
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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.
Alicia Keys -
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.
Angus McKinnon Young AC/DC -
I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
B. B. King -
Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.
Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night -
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.
Camille Saint-Saens -
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.
John Graham Mellor The 101ers
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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.
Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians -
I tend to hear rhythm and melody, chord-progressions, long before I hear words.
Zach Condon -
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.
Neil Diamond -
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 -
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.
Allen Toussaint -
I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses.
Jonny Greenwood Radiohead -
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.
Jeff Lynne Electric Light Orchestra -
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.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
A, C, and G are the only chords any honest musician needs.
Kim Deal The Breeders -
I like really sparse electronics, lush arrangements, and interesting chord structures.
Joshua Adam Klinghoffer Ataxia -
You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around.
Joe Perry Aerosmith
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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.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.
Mick Taylor The Rolling Stones -
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.
Jonny Greenwood Radiohead -
I think the origin of all this clamour for tonality is not so much the need to sense a relationship to the tonic, as a need for familiar chords: let us be frank and say "for the triad"; and I believe I have good reason to say that just so long as a certain kind of music contains enough such triads, it causes no offence, even if in other ways it most violently clashes with the sacred laws of tonality.
Alban Berg