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I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.
Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies.
I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older.
I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing.
I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.
I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.
All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.
Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.
We are unique because we're the same three guys, and as Billy says, playing the same three chords.
My voice has definitely been my plus point and many compliment me for the power of my vocal chords.
I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.
I stopped going out and taking pills and I started hanging out and learning about flat eleven chords.
Stravinsky influenced film music in general - those stabbing chords and rhythms from 'The Rite of Spring.'
I'm trying to make paintings like giant musical chords, with a polyphony of colours that is nuts but works.
If the chords change a lot over the course of a song, it's better to stay within the same melodic structure.
I'm usually just writing lyrics alone in my room, but I'm happy to be producing and writing chords anywhere.
There's only seven chords, so you got to use the same ones over and over. It's all in what you do with them.
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.
You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.
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.
I consider descending chromatic lines and arpeggiated chords basic skills learned by any student of the guitar.
I could write a dozen different songs with the same three or four chords, but they'd all be entirely different.
Lately, I love creating ideas on my acoustic guitar. I sit in my living room for hours trying different chords.
The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.
With 'Under the Pressure,' I just found two chords I liked, and built it up, did like a ten-minute drum pattern.
I get the biggest kick out of it, to hear words that I wrote and chords that I wrote being sung by somebody else.
If something really strikes a chord with an audience, if it pops on TV, I don't mind watching it for a few minutes.
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
I find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be a lead guitarist.
It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords.
Every breath drawn by an individual who truly serves God will elicit a responsive chord from the universe around him.
There are certain parts of chords that resolve things and tie a bow, and others that keep things open and unanswered.
I always find that, when it comes to writing songs, if the melody and the chords are working, we're 90 per cent there.
Nothing matches the sheer euphoria of discovering a new melody or a new batch of chords that just come out of nowhere.
... there are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music.
Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!
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.
I knew if I wanted to improvise over chord changes, I'd have to figure out all the scales that went with all those chords.
One has to sing from the heart to let it touch the right chords. Unless you enjoy the song, your listener will not either.
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.
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.
When I was six years old, Mom and Dad gave me a guitar for my birthday, and Daddy taught me the chords to 'You Are My Sunshine.'
I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've had bruised vocal chords and nodules.
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.
I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious.
The rhythm of sitar cannot be created with chords of guitar and vice versa as both the instruments have a distinct purpose in music.
Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.
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.
I wanted to have absolute control over my music - from the chords and the voicings of the songs to the arrangements and the production.