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

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Book:10 GOLDEN Steps of Life

Source: 10 GOLDEN Steps of Life

“Did you forget the chords, Gwen?" Oliver asks.”

Romance Music Guitar Chords

Book:floating

Source: floating

“Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.”

World Space Substance Emptiness Chords Signs Edge Loop

Book:Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“Consider yourself and the cello. As you play the music moves out to the listener, and also enters the core of your own being, for somehow you are tuned to the cello. Well, I am persuaded that this is because you are a chord. I am a chord. Our DNA dictates our physicality-made up of billions of little notes-on a basic level. Add to that our geography, background et cetera, and you have your original score. Life is the layering of chords, but the underlying one that we are will never change. This brings us to string theory and love. Our personal chord resonates with the personal ones of others, and sometimes we encounter another person who is completely harmonious with us. It is a dominant, overwhelming attraction on the DNA level. However, such a person can appear to be our opposite-and that's where this 'opposites attract' notion comes from-because they have tuned their chord in a different way. In reality, we are attracted to the person we have chosen not to become, an alternative adjustment to a chord that is nearly the same as our own. The clashing portions of the chords sounding together advance the richness of it. So when you make love you aren't expressing emotions or showing affection, you are merging melodies. You are players in the same symphony.”

Love Life Lessons Music Harmony Making Love Dna Chords Opposites Attract Dissonance Cello

Book:Encyclopaedia Of Snow

Source: Encyclopaedia Of Snow

“Theory is a six-letter dirty word to most musicians, but hey, musicians love dirty words, right? And just like all the other dirty words, theory is easy to learn and fun to use!”

Music Scales Chords Music Theory Hack Music Theory

Book:Hack Music Theory, Part 1: Learn Scales & Chords in 30 minutes

Source: Hack Music Theory, Part 1: Learn Scales & Chords in 30 minutes

“Music is the Universal Language that allows all people to communicate with each other.”

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Author:Ellen J. Barrier

“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.”

Way Use Effects Solo Sequence Chords Classical Music

Author:Jon Lord

“Yeah, I can read music and I know the names of chords.”

Knows I Can Names Yeah Chords I Can Read

Author:Dave Navarro

“I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.”

Thinking Writing Different Wanted Song Folks Obvious Different Things Chords Progression Folk Music

Author:Joanna Newsom

“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.”

Trying Song Nice Shapes Chords

Author:Jeff Lynne

“Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.”

Knows Humans Kind Artist Actors Creativity Know How Human Nature Directors Musician Tendencies Trends Predictions Great Art Chords Great Artist Prevailing Amenable

Author:Maurice Saatchi

“True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In this way, the U.S. can provide and express ideals that strike a chord in humans everywhere - a declaration of independence on behalf of all the peoples of the world.”

World Way Humans Ideals Aim Independence Strikes Practicals Idealism Declaration Behalf Chords Materialistic Declaration Of Independence Utopian Idealistic Americanism Materialistic World

Author:Maurice Saatchi

“It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.”

People Giving Writing Kind Real Able Song Three Draws Pops Brilliant Chords Great People Pop Song

Author:Regina Spektor

“I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.”

School Simple Taught Grew Band Grew Up High School Rhythm Piano Chords Aunt

Author:Cristin Milioti

“A, C, and G are the only chords any honest musician needs.”

Needs Honest Musician Chords

Author:Kim Deal

“I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.”

Littles Said House One Day My Friends Guitar Tiny Electric Volume Chords Electric Guitar

Author:Ace Frehley

“I am the consequence of a particular type of demographic movement, one that has always involved paying a high price. But I don't know much about styles or genres. I only know notes and chords.”

Knows Style Movement Particular Type Involved Consequence Notes Genre Chords Demographics High Prices

Author:Concha Buika

“I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.”

Thinking Writing Trying Years Together Song Seeing Fit Healthy Shapes Rivers Chords Folds Lennon

Author:Andrew Dost

“I sometimes try to write something that is actually really simple and I can't do it. So, then, it's not simple anymore. It's really hard and it gets all messed up. I sometimes sit down and try to write a song with just three chords and it doesn't work.”

Writing Trying I Can Sometimes Hard Song Three Simple Down And Chords Messed Up

Author:Sondre Lerche

“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.”

Firsts Song Inspire Chords Progression

Author:Black Francis

“To some degree. I think that I've always been very much of a chordal person. The chords are the foundation of everything. Some of Yes' stuff is very linear, albeit complex, but it's single-line melodic stuff. So I kind of had to wear a different cap working with Yes. It's not so much chord-based.”

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Author:Geoff Downes

“My sister played the piano. She’s two years older than me, and I always wanted to play something. So my grandmother got the guitar for me, and showed me a couple of chords to start off. And then I got me a book. Next thing you know, I was playing along with sister.”

Knows Years Two Book Play Wanted Next Couple Guitar Piano Grandmother Two Years My Sister My Grandmother Chords

Author:Willie Nelson

“Sometimes an idea from six years ago will come to me out of the blue. And maybe I haven't even seen the lyrics I wrote down, but I'll just have this physical memory of having written it, and in my mind I can see the piece of paper, and the words I wrote down, and then by muscle memory, I'll remember the chords that go along with it.”

Years Mind I Can Ideas Sometimes Remember Memories Pieces Written Havens Paper Six Years Ago Down And Blue Muscles Chords Muscle Memory

Author:Ryan Adams

“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.”

Wells Interest Please Disease Tales Mortals Charm Minors Worn Chords Stale Dreary Malady

Author:Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout, Touched by light, with heavenly warning Your transporting chords ring out. Every leaf in every nook, Every wave in every brook, Chanting with a solemn voice Minds us of our better choice.”

Source: The Christian year, thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year [by J. Keble].

“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.”

Emotional Radio Clubs Melody Chords

Author:David Guetta

“Sometimes images may emerge from some chord in my subconscious, the way a dream might. Even in those paintings where an image unconsciously develops, a certain kind of experience is usually necessary in order to perceive it.”

Way Kind May Sometimes Dream Might Certain Order Painting Perception Perceive Subconscious Chords

Author:Robert Motherwell

“When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don't vary your tones you can't get pretty tired of your own voice.”

Ifs Voice Air Tired Tone Throat Chords Vocal Vary

Author:Alan Ladd

“The music comes first, like, 99 percent of the time. I come up with the basic chord structure and the melody first and then I get really obsessed with arranging, adding, and subtracting parts. The last step of the process, for me, is finding words that fit into that structure and figuring out exactly what I want to talk about.”

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Author:Mikal Cronin

“Pete Townsend for me was a huge influence. Because essentially they were a three-piece band and the way he structured his chords and took up a lot of space musically in the songs was really important to the way Rush developed. Geddy and Neil both were such active players and lot of the time we were all playing like crazy and it was too much and somebody had to reel it in and me being the faceless guy, I would do that.”

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Author:Alex Lifeson

“I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes, and a melody, a vocal melody - if it works with that, then I feel it's written and there's something there.”

Ifs Feels Stills I Can Song Written Beats Rhythm Melody Chords Vocal

Author:David Byrne

“Love--what a volume in a word, an ocean in a tear, A seventh heaven in a glance, a whirlwind in a sigh, The lightning in a touch, a millennium in a moment, What concentrated joy or woe in blest or blighted love! For it is that native poetry springing up indigenous to Mind, The heart's own-country music thrilling all its chords, The story without an end that angels throng to hear, The word, the king of words, carved on Jehovah's heart!”

Source: Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated

“How light the touches are that kiss the music from the chords of life!”

Light Music Kissing Chords

Book:The betrothal. The espousals

Source: The betrothal. The espousals

“Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end, whether it's writing a song, or playing guitar, or a particular chord sequence, or blowing a horn, it's based on improvisation and spontaneity.”

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Author:Van Morrison

“No joy for which thy hungering heart has panted, No hope it cherishes through waiting years, But if thou dost deserve it, shall be granted For with each passionate wish the blessing nears. Tune up the fine, strong instrument of thy being To chord with thy dear hope, and do not tire. When both in key and rhythm are agreeing, Lo! thou shalt kiss the lips of thy desire. The thing thou cravest so waits in the distance, Wrapt in the silences, unseen and dumb: Essential to thy soul and thy existence-- Live worthy of it--call, and it shall come.”

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“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.”

Writing I Can Heard Add Chords Because I Can Robins

Author:Maurice Gibb

“My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the ache of things: Illusions beating with their baffled wings Against the walls of circumstance.”

Mind Heart Passion Voice Wall My Heart Circumstances Sorrow Illusion Wings Strings Minors Ache Chords Vibrate Baffled

Book:Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer

Source: Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer

“Instead of thinking in terms of chords, I think of voice-leading; that is, melody line and bass line, and where the bass line goes. If you do that, you'll have the right chord. [These voices] will give you some alternatives, and you can play those different alternatives to hear which one suits your ear. Keep the bass line moving so you don't stay in one spot: if you have an interesting bass line and you roll it against the melody, the chords are going to come out right.”

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Author:Paul Simon

“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.”

People Way Want Different Sometimes Easy Hours Sleep Tough Chords Vocal

Author:Mariah Carey

“Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah”

Care Fall Secret Lord Heard Kings Majors Lifts Fourth Minors Fifth Chords Composing Hallelujah Baffled

Author:Leonard Cohen

“Indeed, there is a moment on the first CD - the electrifying opening to "I Got Loaded," which sounds like an R&B standard but isn't - when you might find yourself asking whether anyone who has ever been smitten by pop music can fail to have his heart stopped by the chords, the swing, and, once again, Steve Berlin's wonderfully greasy sax.”

Firsts Heart Moments Might Sound Failing Standards Asking Pops Opening Finding Yourself Swings Chords Berlin Cds Pop Music Loaded Smitten

Book:Songbook

Source: Songbook

“No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul.”

Bigs Common Horse Medicine Notion Common Sense Cheer Outsiders Chords Robust Populism

Author:Alexander Cockburn

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Way Needs Believe Kind Long Reason Enough Law Certain I Believe Causes Sacred Familiar Frank Chords Clash Offence Clamour Triads

Author:Alban Berg

“The message of reconciliation, of nation-building, of granting amnesty, indemnity, has struck a powerful, favorable chord. And people can understand that we're here not for purposes of retribution but to forget the past and to build our country.”

People Country Past Purpose Nations Forget Powerful Building Messages Our Country Chords Reconciliation Retribution Nation Building Amnesty Forget The Past

Author:Nelson Mandela

“The way that words mutate reminds me of fashions in music. The word--the note--is a constant. But the setting and chord in which it occurs alters with the mood of a nation from major to minor, from the assertive to the mournful and foreboding.”

Way Nations Fashion Majors Constant Notes Mood Setting Settings Minors Chords Assertive Foreboding

Book:Games with Shadows

Source: Games with Shadows

“Vanity is easily forgiven, for we are all vain, and even as we laugh at the weakness of others we feel that their vanity has touched the responding chord of our own.”

Feels Laughing Weakness Vanity Vain Touched Forgiven Chords Responding

Book:Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day

Source: Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day

“Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again, To scenes by memory's silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho' it sprung From one united heart.”

Heart Stills Dream Past Young Joy Growth Memories United Our Lives Scene Chains Bliss Branches Silver Linked Chords Vines Sprung Fostering

Author:Alan Cooper

“I don't doubt that at the dawn of martial arts, the main goal was to beat up one's opponents in the most effective way possible. But then, indirectly, the alchemy of martial arts began to strike some chords deep within the spirit of many individuals, transforming living war-machines into poets, artists, and philosophers.”

Source: On the Warrior's Path, Second Edition: Philosophy, Fighting, and Martial Arts Mythology

“The biochemistry and biophysics are the notes required for life; they conspire, collectively, to generate the real unit of life, the organism. The intermediate level, the chords and tempos, has to do with how the biochemistry and biophysics are organized, arranged, played out in space and time to produce a creature who grows and divides and is.”

Real Grows Space Levels Produce Creatures Notes Organized Divides Organisms Units Time And Space Chords Tempo Biochemistry

Book:The Sacred Depths of Nature

Source: The Sacred Depths of Nature

“There are chords in the human heart- strange, varying strings- which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch.”

Inspirational Humans Heart Lasts Strange Passionate Accidents Appeals Strings Human Heart Earnest Chords Casual Mute

Book:The Old Curiosity Shop

Source: The Old Curiosity Shop

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