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Tag Name "Chords" (140)

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Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Robert Burns
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Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.
Fanny Crosby
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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.
Neil Diamond
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I don't like no fancy chords. Just the boogie. The drive. The feeling. A lot of people play fancy but they don't have no style. It's a deep feeling-you just can't stop listening to that sad blues sound. My sound.
John Lee Hooker
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There are all kinds of things that can be done. You can change rhythms, you can change chords, you can change whole concepts. But it will only work, on a record or in a performance, if you can make the people buy it.
Nina Simone
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I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.
Joni Mitchell
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Any quick analysis of a Beatles tune or a Cole Porter tune will reveal often simple but unexpected chords, chords that chromatically shift between keys, or between major and minor.
Paul Zollo
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Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart and then a single melancholy week may seem like a year's pining, one long unfolding note.
Julia Glass
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I really love country music, just this idea of three chords and the truth.
Ragnar Kjartansson
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For some reason, I deliberately allow for simple things like three chords to mystify me. It's kind of fun that way. Like Billy Gibbons' guitar sound isn't the way it is because he uses a quarter as a pick or anything as simple as that it's because he's in touch with a different sector of the cosmos that we know nothing about.
Kevin Drumm
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Sin hath broke the world's sweet peace--unstrung Th' harmonious chords to which the angels sung.
Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
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A, C, and G are the only chords any honest musician needs.
Kim Deal
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Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!
Leonard Cohen
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There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an idea that's attached to just a few chords. Other times, it's work.
Ryan Adams
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I'm taking drama classes, they say I'm a natural actress. I think it's just because I talk a lot. I'm also learning how to play guitar and piano. Piano is really hard though. My dad is teaching me and I just get so confused because the chords are so different, but by learning I hope to be able to be a songwriter as well.
Lindsay Pagano
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If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.
Lou Reed
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All them weird chords which don't mean a thing...you got no melody to remember, and no beat to dance to
Louis Armstrong
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"When I'm playing music I'm usually not thinking of surfing, just because I'm usually thinking about the chords and the lyrics, and sometimes that messes me up 'cause you'll start thinking, ""Wait, how am I doing this?"" But when I'm surfing, I'm usually thinking about music - whether it's an idea for a new song, or just singing a song in my head."
Jack Johnson
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... there are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Bill Gates recently picked up the ukulele. And Warren Buffett is a huge ukulele fan. I even got to strum a few chords with Francis Ford Coppola. It blows my mind that these people, who have everything in the world they could want, have picked up the ukulele and found a little bit of joy.
Jake Shimabukuro
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Sometimes it's tough because I've got to sleep 15 hours to sing the way I want to. It's not easy because my vocal chords are different than most people's.
Mariah Carey
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I like men who have known the best and the worst, whose life has been anything but a smooth trip. Storms have battered them, they have lain, sometimes for months on end, becalmed. There is a residue even if they fail. It has not been all tinkling there have been grand chords.
James Salter
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I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to.
Maurice Gibb
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I stopped going out and taking pills and I started hanging out and learning about flat eleven chords.
Jamie Lidell
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