Top 121 Chord Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Chord Quotes from famous people such as Raghava Lawrence, Maren Morris, John Prine, M. Shadows, Irv Kupcinet, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

The producers and I felt that 'Kanchana 2' would be the

The producers and I felt that ‘Kanchana 2’ would be the apt title when compared to ‘Muni 3.’ Because, it goes with the prequel and will immediately strike a chord with the audience.
Raghava Lawrence
Being on the stage is the one place I don’t get nervous. Before the show is another story, but once I’m up there, and the first chord hits, I go to this other place. It’s like a dream land.
Maren Morris
Soon as I could play one guitar chord and laid my ear upon that wood, I was gone. My soul was sold. Music was everything from then on.
John Prine
Ever since ‘Hail to the King,’ we’ve been more cognizant of our chord progressions, our key changes, drama in songs, a lot of dynamics – we’ve really added a lot of that in there.
M. Shadows
My freshman year at Harrison High School, I saw a journalism class where students were putting out a weekly newspaper. It touched a responsive chord in me.
Irv Kupcinet
Even when I haven’t played in a while, I can sit down and start with a chord, and just drop into it. It’s like this tunnel I go into. The zone is where I want to live.
Kurt Vile
When I picked up guitar, it wasn’t like, ‘OK, I’m going to be Kenny Chesney.’ It was like, ‘I want to play a chord,’ and then it was like, ‘I want to play another one, then play a song, then sing while playing the song.’
Luke Combs
The most common power chord in metal is the root/fifth, but root/third diads are also worth checking out.
Dimebag Darrell
Neil Young does throw in a major seven chord here and there, so if you’re a new guitar player learning Neil Young songs, you’ll learn some seven chords, and some different positions. Nothing too complicated, just enough to kind of open up your knowledge a little bit.
Jesse Harris
I’m listening to scripts and would like to play characters that’d strike a chord with the masses.
Jaya Prada
It’s tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there’s someone out there who wants to kill you.
Darrell Hammond
There’s a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can’t figure the name of it. It’s a different chord, and they all make it.
Jimmy Rushing
I like really sparse electronics, lush arrangements, and interesting chord structures.
Josh Klinghoffer
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 found that the same things I loved about performing were the things I liked about directing and creating a piece – striking a chord that was in tune with the world and was reflecting back what I saw, just from a different angle.
Michael Arden
It’s really weird to be playing chords again. Haven’t played chords for a long time. I realised I haven’t played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.
Ed O’Brien
I made physical objects because I know how to do something on the computer. That struck a chord with me: Most women of my generation have grown up with technology but lack the handmade creative skills of former generations. This is a big opportunity to fill that gap.
Brit Morin
Unlike other flagship programmes, which have been left with unpronounceable acronyms, like MGNREGA and JNNURM, Bharat Nirman struck a popular chord.
Sanjaya Baru
Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don’t have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.
Keanu Reeves
Musicals allow a depth of emotion that you don’t get in another form of acting, the chord changes, the lyrics really affect people, so that in two hours, you’ve forgotten about things.
Michael Ball
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
One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you’re into jazz.
Lou Reed
I can’t sing, but I’ll sing over this chord progression, like, over and over, for however long it takes – sometimes it’s, like, two minutes, sometimes it’s 20 minutes – until I’ve found like a hook or something that I’m really happy with. And then, basically, it just like that’s my melody, and that’s where I start from.
Flume
I’ve always been attracted to odd chord changes and interesting melodies.
James Righton
Chopin was a master of melody, harmony and voice leading – the art of smoothly moving from chord to chord.
John Petrucci
I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn’t play it. I’d been getting bored with the stereotyped changes that were being used. I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with related changes, I could play the thing I’d been hearing.
Charlie Parker
I don’t have musical theory or great chord knowledge, but what I have got me where I am.
Lights
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.
Allan Holdsworth
You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you’re got music.
Sid Vicious
For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don’t. That’s how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn’t.
Rain Phoenix
If anything, even though I can play in the sort of standard string-bending style, in the B.B. King mold and all of that, I’ve always had a great interest in the more primitive playing, the open chord playing, rhythm and figures.
Rory Gallagher
Why play a chord when you can play one note?

Why play a chord when you can play one note?
Alex Kapranos
I don’t really have a favorite genre. I could listen to a rock song, a metal song, jazz, pop music, whatever. For me, whatever style it is, it always depends on the chord progression, the lyrics, and the melody used.
Bakermat
Sweep picking is when the right hand sweeps down and up the strings in succession. But when you do sweep picking, one note rings into the next, and it sounds almost like you’re playing a chord, and that’s exactly what you don’t want.
Yngwie Malmsteen
With Audioslave, it’s all about melody and chord progressions.
Tim Commerford
You have to get the attention of the audience. You have to make sure they know you are starting. You have to achieve a rapport with them on the very first chord.
Julian Bream
Songs I do have to strike an emotional chord the first time I sing them.
Keith Whitley
Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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 do believe that a poet would possess a stronger intuitive sense of phrasing with a rock song. There is a way to tap into the emotions of an audience simply by the cross of a certain phrase, even a single word, against a certain chord.
Jim Carroll
I like Kelela. I like Twigs. I love the more old school; I hate to say old school, but I love Peaches; I love Peaches, I love Cat Power. And there’s constantly new things coming up. But there’s something so beautifully powerful – for me being a woman, when there’s a woman doing something, it really strikes a chord.
Neneh Cherry
I think there’s something that feels so good about a 1-4-5 chord progression. It’s a very standard chord progression, and it just feels good to the ears.
Ben Gibbard
I’m a guy who doesn’t know the name of the chord, but I know that it sounds good.
Jon Pardi
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
Over the years I have become convinced that we learn best – and change – from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.
John P. Kotter
I was really gratified that, of all the episodes of ‘Cooked,’ the baking one really hit a chord. There were months where there were dozens of loaves posted from people on my Twitter feed every day… And it’s a little bit of a guy thing. Most of those loaves put up on Twitter were put up there by guys.
Michael Pollan
When I’m writing with Tony Iommi, for example, still it’s very easy. We go in, and I know exactly what his style is. It’s very distinctive, and you know exactly what he’s looking for, and we know exactly where we’re going from the first chord.
Ian Gillan
If you know what you do well and stick to that, I think you can appeal to the different generations. You can strike a chord with them. I’ve got the brain of a teenager anyway.
Angus Young
There was a time when content could be manipulated with money, but today we have surpassed that. Now, only good content will create ripples and strike a chord because the artistes are connecting directly with their listeners through social media.
Jubin Nautiyal
I love to zoom in and study why a chord is making me feel a certain way, but then I’ve learnt to zoom out again. Because if I’m not actually feeling it, there’s not much point making it in the first place.
Jacob Collier
You don’t have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too much guitar. Stack it on top of each other the way it don’t – you’re working too fast. Blues not supposed to be played fast. Blues supposed to be played slow. You could kill a man with just one chord.
David Edwards
I search for different tonalities in my taps. But my greatest pleasure is hearing a note I haven’t heard before, hearing a chord that sparks something new.
Savion Glover
I loved Jimmy Reed, the chord changes, the lyrics.
Sixto Rodriguez
If there’s something I really like or a chord progression, I write a note in my Blackberry, and maybe a year later, I’ll revisit it and ask, ‘What did I like about that?’ I really don’t try to think too much about it. I like to be fresh.
M. Shadows
I just couldn’t take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that’s about all I did at school.
Alvin Lee