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