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My vocal chords fought to contain the memories that leaked out; I felt the weight off it all pressing down on me. — Jake Wood

All I have is this guitar, these chords and the truth. — Jon Bon Jovi

Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. — Willie Nelson

He was a god of rock. He nearly solved all the world's problems with nothing but power chords and anguished cries into a microphone. — Kevin Hearne

The lyrics, the strings, the chords, everything comes at the moment like a gift that is put right into your head and that's how I hear it. — Michael Jackson

Yeah, I can read music and I know the names of chords. — Dave Navarro

I stopped going out and taking pills and I started hanging out and learning about flat eleven chords ... — Jamie Lidell

I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords. — Miguel

Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies. — Flume

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

Everything you do is different, and you find different chords in every character that you play that strike true with you. — Scarlett Johansson

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

Chords that were broken will vibrate once more. — Fanny Crosby

There are certain parts of chords that resolve things and tie a bow, and others that keep things open and unanswered. — Feist

Life is like a guitar and the combination of chords are called moments. Playing them is the called living the moments. — Vikrmn

A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off. — Woody Guthrie

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

Before too long I was playing badly out in some bars around Memphis, but as soon as I learned a few chords I started writing my own stuff. — Bryan Hayes

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

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords. — Andrew Bird

Music is the Universal Language that allows all people to communicate with each other. — Ellen J. Barrier

Nothing is duller than a progression of common chords. One wants some contrast, which breaks up the clear white light and makes it iridescent. — Denis Diderot

Anyone who uses more than two chords is just showing off. — Woody Guthrie

I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people. It's a fear of failure, I guess. — Mandy Moore

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together. — Barry Lopez

A writer's job is done once the lines touch reader's forbidden chords. — Shreya Gupta

I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords. — Joni Mitchell

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish. — Joe Elliott

For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating. — Suzy Bogguss

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. — Napoleon Bonaparte

To charm, to strengthen, and to teach: these are the three great chords of might. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. — Anna Jameson

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

Speaking softly and slowly, and breathing through the vocal chords in a low voice, has become the mythical ideal voice for a yoga teacher. — Gudjon Bergmann

You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around. — Joe Perry

Country music is three chords and the truth. — Harlan Howard

When God is involved, anything can happen. Be open. Stay that way. God has a beautiful way of bringing good vibrations out of broken chords. — Charles R. Swindoll

A, C, and G are the only chords any honest musician needs. — Kim Deal

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place. — David Bowie

There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion. — Edgar Allan Poe

I really love country music, just this idea of three chords and the truth. — Ragnar Kjartansson

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label. — David Byrne

I bid the chords sweet music make,
And all must follow in my wake. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women. — Glenn Frey

How light the touches are that kiss the music from the chords of life! — Coventry Patmore

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

About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar. — Freddie Mercury

[On the virtuous man] He combines the highest, lowest and middle chords in complete harmony within himself. — Plato

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

The total person sings not just the vocal chords. — E. M. Broner

It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song. — George Harrison

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. — Joe Strummer

At a certain point, I should start to pay attention and make sure I'm not damaging my vocal chords, because I enjoy using them a lot. — Martina Sorbara

If you play more than two chords, you're showing off. — Woody Guthrie

Alone was the note that Cade knew best. It was the root of all her chords. — Amy Rose Capetta

I just started off on my own by learning the regular chords then the barre chords. Then I'd lean the notes that would go with them. — Tommy Bolin

I'd definitely like to see less twerking and more power chords. — Courtney Love

I learned some chords and I started watching anybody I could, once I really got into it. — Johnny Rivers

The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony. — Saadi

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

I'll write and make chords with my voice sometimes if I don't have an instrument even though it takes a million times longer. — Zooey Deschanel

I bad a piano long before I bad a guitar, and the practice I got just playing those three chords in a basic 12-bar blues song was very important. — Mark Knopfler

Ever since I released my first album, I've tried not to use minor chords as the main element in songs. The way I sing is too melancholic. — Jose Gonzalez

The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure. — Eddie Trunk

In life, everybody gets the same three chords. It's what you do with them that matters. — Greg Kihn

Before, singing was my life, my vocal chords used to lead the way. Now, I'm in-charge. — Celine Dion

Sin hath broke the world's sweet peace
unstrung
Th' harmonious chords to which the angels sung. — Richard Henry Dana Jr.

We'd buy brochures of Dylan lyrics and stay up late interpreting them. Dylan's words struck chords of creative thinking. — Walter Isaacson

The powerful chords that emanated from the radio heated me from the inside out, like a microwave. — Sandy Ward Bell

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched. — Paul Harris

As soon as you get off stage, that's the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords are receptive to any kind of germ. — Anita Baker

I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it. — Bradford Cox

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

I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords. — B.B. King

I've been playing swing chords for a long time. — Suzy Bogguss

I guess the approach to song writing for me so far has been to use more chords and less math. — Mick Barr

All them weird chords which don't mean a thing ... you got no melody to remember, and no beat to dance to — Louis Armstrong

The redwoods are like organ pipes, playing silent chords. — Anne Lamott

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe. — Robert Burns

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

Music offers the chords that binds us together. — Jeffrey Fry

There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains. — Frank Herbert

The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and power chords. — Colin Marston

As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses. — Jonny Greenwood

I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar. — Alan Price

The voluptuous chords of the wedding march done in blasphemous syncopation issued in a delirious blend from the trombones and saxophones--and — F Scott Fitzgerald

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

I know a few chords on the guitar, but I wouldn't be able do a show or even be part of a jam session with one. — Jake Shimabukuro

There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure — Roger Scruton

You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard. — Pharrell Williams

Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model. — Harvey Dunn

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

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated. — Ritchie Blackmore

I began to learn a lot of chords and rhythms. It was a bit boring at the time but came in very handy later on. — Alvin Lee

Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five! — Leonard Cohen

If Dave Robbie's a song, he's written in major chords. — Cath Crowley

If it has more than three chords, it's jazz. — Lou Reed

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

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar. — Patti Smith