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The word discipline sometimes touches a slightly rebellious chord in our natures. Remember that it comes from the word disciple. — Boyd K. Packer

When the Killers first came out, a lot of people thought we were English, and it touched a chord in me, because my roots are very American. — Brandon Flowers

Not everyone in Santa Monica is a well-heeled, juice-cleansing, Prius-driving yogini, but for better or worse, that is the city's dominant chord. — Meghan Daum

War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged. — Margaret Mitchell

Genius is when you strike a chord accidently, and the ensuing music is beyond your control — Bangambiki Habyarimana

It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you. — Darrell Hammond

I assure you, my dear, were you to play the piano on the moon, I would hear every chord. — Amor Towles

The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction. — Joyce Carol Oates

I can play the harmonica with my nose. — Chord Overstreet

I tend to hear rhythm and melody, chord-progressions, long before I hear words. — Zach Condon

When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song. — G.K. Chesterton

Why would that cause him to pack up his bolt, chord, and sphere, and hurry to Ecba, of all places? — Neal Stephenson

I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally. — Martin Gore

I had an affinity for pandas. Something about clumsy vegetarians struck a chord with me. — Lish McBride

I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

When the wind is against you, like a kite, have your chord of faith rooted and you would fly highest ever. — Vikrmn

A Schubert song, the A-major chord at the opening of Wagner's 'Lohengrin' - such incredible beauty is a mystery, the divinity of music. — Gian Carlo Menotti

By adopting a certain physical posture, a resonant chord is struck in spirit. — Bruce Lee

Why play a chord when you can play one note? — Alex Kapranos

It's funny how three or four notes of anger can be struck at once, creating the perfect chord of fury. — Tayari Jones

Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet? — Billy Gibbons

In the symphony of love, the lost chord is a small organ lying somewhat north of the vagina. — Ruth Herschberger

I've been playing music since I was born. — Chord Overstreet

Chord substitution isn't some mysterious religious sect. — Howard Roberts

I'm not an abrasive person. I do speak my mind, but my goal is never to offend. I don't intentionally want to strike a chord. — Trevor Noah

Every breath drawn by an individual who truly serves God will elicit a responsive chord from the universe around him. — Samson Raphael Hirsch

I cringed as the band oozed into the next chord. If notes were cars, I think there was a D major under the wreckage. — Mary Hughes

Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord. — Pat Metheny

I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious. — Stephen King

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord. — Neil Young

There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy. — Thomas Hood

I really write emotionally so whatever mood I'm in, or if a chord hits me a certain way that's what I'll go off of. — Zac Farro

Indeed, all forms of human folly and beastiality touch a very symphathetic chord within our breasts! — J.D. Salinger

When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo. — Carla Bley

I don't want to be compared to Brad Pitt because I don't want to, you know, disappoint anybody. Brad Pitt is an icon. — Chord Overstreet

If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song. — Sylvia Plath

Adventures happen on dull days, and not on sunny ones. When the chord of monotony is stretched most tight, then it breaks with a sound like song. — G.K. Chesterton

We'd hold a chord for three hours if we could. — John Cale

I've always been a fan of 'Beat It,' 'You Rock My World,' and 'Smooth Criminal.' — Chord Overstreet

I watched 'Full House.' I loved 'Full House.' — Chord Overstreet

I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen. — Chord Overstreet

I could live inside a G major chord, with Grace, if she was willing. — Maggie Stiefvater

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more. — Frank Black

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

This is our grace: To be a note
In the exact chord that animates creation. — Deena Metzger

I write alternative, folkie pop. It's very acoustic. — Chord Overstreet

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

I freaking love Gwyneth Paltrow - I think she's awesome. She is fantastic. — Chord Overstreet

I'm a huge Neil Flynn fan. — Chord Overstreet

I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs. — Joan Jett

I didn't want to be this four-chord acoustic singer songwriter because that stuff just got so old to me. — Kathleen Edwards

If I'm going to be on national T.V. without my shirt on, I've got to look good. — Chord Overstreet

The problem with real life is there's no musical score. In movies, you know you're in danger because there's an ominous chord underlining the scene, — Sue Grafton

Strumming a ukulele just right can make you sound like a pro, even if you only know one chord. — Wilson Villanueva

Chord progression is progression of emotions; storytelling - taking one person from one mood to the next. We are doing the same thing within a DJ set. — Richie Hawtin

We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us. — John P. Kotter

The way jazz works is that we take a theme, and then we write using the same structure, same chord changes, and then we can do different tunes. — Tommy Chong

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

I've played the guitar since I was 12, and just taught myself songs chord by chord. — Jamie Blackley

Art only survives by striking a chord in someone's heart and offering solace and reassurance. — Hannah Mary Rothschild

It turns out kids today still learn that four-chord progression when they're just picking up the guitar. — John Scofield

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

Our lips brushed,and I felt like a chord had been struck inside me, and my body was humming with a pure musical note. — Amy Plum

I think The Hulk really hit a chord with me, I love the Hulk. But, I never dreamt I'd be playing Doctor Doom. — Simon Templeman

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

I set down a beautiful chord on paper - and suddenly it rusts. — Alfred Schnittke

The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because it makes it really emotional. — David Guetta

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano. — Flea

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

Sometimes it rose to an aching chord that caught the throat, saying this is the safety, this is warmth, this is the Whole. — John Steinbeck

To create a minor 7 chord we add a b7 to a minor triad. The formula is 1 b3 5 b7. — Joseph Alexander

Wild Horses" started in a B-minor chord, and Stu didn't play minor chords, "fucking Chinese music. — Keith Richards

I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software. — Nadia Ali

I like really sparse electronics, lush arrangements, and interesting chord structures. — Josh Klinghoffer

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child. — Roddy Doyle

I learned to embrace my individuality, and if that meant writing a song on one chord over and over again, then that's what I do. — Beth Orton

Memento mori and obey the Lord.
Art and religion love the somber chord. — Robert Frost

As an actor, you want as much variety as you can muster up. Otherwise you just keep playing the same chord over and over again. — Michelle Forbes

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz. — Lou Reed

I love classical music; I love the way it's worked ... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos. — Jon Lord

It's just a real thrill when you're showing somebody a chord progression or something, and you see that light come on, you know. You see 'em 'get it.' — Johnny Gimble

For recessional music there's "Closing Time" by Semisonic, a four-chord farewell to the old century. — Thomas Pynchon

It was a feeling which he had seen before in his mother; but no chord within vibrated to it. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright. — Ouida

It's a law, a law of the universe. Like gravity or stupidity or how a minor chord always sounds sad. — Catherynne M Valente

Chris (Anderson) is risking his life with every chord, that's how much it means to him. He has such a reverence for beauty, he plays like an angel. — Charlie Haden

A chord is just the name of a sound. — Lester Bowie

Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few. — Carl Jung

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me. — Lou Reed

Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity. — Annie Besant

I would rather hang out in my house with a couple of friends than go and rage all night. — Chord Overstreet

Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that. — Roger McGuinn

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream. — Frank Zappa

What I'm trying to produce is the visual equivalent of the chord change that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. — Rian Hughes

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

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

It's really hard to find a love song that is real. That's when you really strike a chord with somebody, when you dig in deep and grab a hold. — Rodney Atkins