Serdadu Chord Quotes

I've played the guitar since I was 12, and just taught myself songs chord by chord. ~ Jamie Blackley

My real name is Chord Overstreet. I actually got my name because my dad is in the music business as a songwriter. I was the third one in my family born, and there are three notes in a chord, so that's how they came up with my name. ~ Chord Overstreet

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. ~ Cristin Milioti

Then I began to play. Variations on a G major chord, the most wonderful chord known to mankind, infinitely happy. I could live inside a G major chord, with Grace, if she was willing. Everything uncomplicated and good about me could be summed up by that chord. ~ Maggie Stiefvater

I can play the harmonica with my nose. ~ Chord Overstreet

The most obvious effect of inverting a chord is to change its bass note, and one result of voice leading through the use of inversions is the creation of melodic bass lines that connect from chord to chord by steps rather than by the wider leaps common when root position voicings alone are used. ~ Carl Schroeder

I would rather hang out in my house with a couple of friends than go and rage all night. ~ Chord Overstreet

I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally. ~ Martin Gore

Why play a chord when you can play one note? ~ Alex Kapranos

You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music. ~ Sid Vicious

I'm a huge Neil Flynn fan. ~ Chord Overstreet

I freaking love Gwyneth Paltrow - I think she's awesome. She is fantastic. ~ Chord Overstreet

If I'm going to be on national T.V. without my shirt on, I've got to look good. ~ Chord Overstreet

I've been playing music since I was born. ~ Chord Overstreet

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

Every era casts illness in its own image. Society, like the ultimate psychosomatic patient, matches its medical afflictions to its psychological crises; when a disease touches such a visceral chord, it is often because that chord is already resonating. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It's an infinite playlist. ~ David Levithan

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 heard what I'd learned against my will to identify as new age music. Aimless and spacey, it meandered from unresolved keyboard chord to unresolved keyboard chord with some somnolent noodling in place of melody. Drooling pianos, music to sleepwalk by. ~ Timothy Hallinan

I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen. ~ Chord Overstreet

The search for meaning is really the search for the lost chord. When the lost chord is discovered by humankind, the discord in the world will be healed and the symphony of the universe will come into complete harmony with itself. ~ John O'Donohue

My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of chords in one song. If I find another chord I leave it for another song. ~ Junior Kimbrough

I can talk about feelings, but I can't talk about why this chord on top of this chord sounds cool to me. It just makes me feel a certain way, and I like it. ~ John Dieterich

The melodies are always the most important part to me. I am pulled more to the groove than the chord progression. After you find the groove, you find the most simple chord progressions and then sit inside that groove. ~ Dave Matthews

I'll just sit at the piano a lot an play like through different chord exercises and kind of just throwing my hands down on the piano from one chord to the next to see what happens. ~ David Sanborn

It's not weird being recognised, but it's weird having to stop what you're doing to take pictures or sign something. But the fans are the reason you have your success, so it comes with the territory. ~ Chord Overstreet

Presently, I sense within me the slightest touch. The harmony of one chord lingers in my mind. It fuses, divides, searches
but for what? I open my eyes, position the fingers of my right hand on the buttons, and play out a series of permutations.
After a time, I am able, as if by will, to locate the first four notes. They drift down from inward skies, softly, as early morning sunlight. They find me; these are the notes I have been seeking.
I hold down the chord key and press the individual notes over and over again. The four notes seem to desire further notes, another chord. I strain to hear the chord that follows. The first four notes lead me to the next five, then to another chord and three more notes.
It is a melody. Not a complete song, but the first phrase of one. I play the three chords and twelve notes, also, over and over again. It is a song, I realize, I know. ~ Haruki Murakami

I've never used the word jamming. It's a matter of finding a great song and learning the chords, then slightly altering the vocal melody, and matching a classic chord progression with another chord progression. ~ M. Ward

I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. It was the only instrument that fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into drums when I was six and then started playing guitar when I was seven or eight. ~ Chord Overstreet

The marvels of God are not brought forth from one's self. Rather, it is more like a chord, a sound that is played. The tone does not come out of the chord itself, but rather, through the touch of the musician. I am, of course, the lyre and harp of God's kindness. ~ Hildegard Of Bingen

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

Like the ability of all the musicians to end the song at the right time. Or when it's time for a chord change, but nobody knows what the chord should be, and you all, you know, it all just changes, magically, at the same time. It's when you pick up your phone to call someone and that person is calling you. ~ Larkin Grimm

After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it a big bang. That would just be noise, and all that noise could create is more noise and a cosmos full of random particles. Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord. ~ Terry Pratchett

Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open G chord I go right. That's how hard I play, and that's how a lot of my stage act has come about. I just go where the guitar takes me. ~ Angus Young

A voice said: One. One. One, two. One, two. Then the footsteps went back into the distance. After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it a big bang. That would just be noise, and all that noise could create is more noise and a cosmos full of random particles. Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord. Everything, all together, streaming out in one huge rush that contained within itself, like reverse fossils, everything that it was going to be. And, zigzagging through the expanding cloud, alive, that first wild live music. This had shape. It had spin. It had rhythm. It had a beat, and you could dance to it. Everything did. ~ Terry Pratchett

I had an affinity for pandas. Something about clumsy vegetarians struck a chord with me. ~ Lish McBride

For recessional music there's "Closing Time" by Semisonic, a four-chord farewell to the old century. ~ Thomas Pynchon

When love has left us in the lurch and nothing ever strikes a chord anymore, we may come to realize a vacuum of the lost vibrations of happiness and an absence of the ethereal and exalting feel of harmony that we only become aware of, after time passes by and everything has expired. ("Amour en friche") ~ Erik Pevernagie

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. ~ Sarah Emily Miano

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Chord substitution isn't some mysterious religious sect. ~ Howard Roberts

We were on a tour, and there were some chord formations that were tough for me to play when I was a kid ... it had become apparent that there was some stuff I wanted to do that [would require me] to learn how to do that. So I wrote the song and used some of these chord formations so I would have to play them. I thought it would be a great teaching vehicle for a while, and it was, but it ended up as a performance song. ~ Jorma Kaukonen

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

Indeed, all forms of human folly and beastiality touch a very symphathetic chord within our breasts! ~ J.D. Salinger

Perhaps it was the anticipation, that moment sustained by the drive home, when one is in a taxi with a stranger who is about to be transfigured into a lover,and there is an interval, as in music, when the chord of desire has been struck, and the chord of the fulfillment of desire hasn't; when everything remains suspended and anticipatory, and the snow falls through the air of a city whose ugliness is temporarily obscured, and the cab itself seems to exist inside a magical circle of quiet heat and togetherness and motion; and, I suppose, for that moment, it is beautiful: the snow, and everything. ~ Hayes Alfred

Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet? ~ Billy Gibbons

Melancholy is almost always at the core of every great work of beauty because it plays a chord that only the heart can comprehend. ~ VD.

I set down a beautiful chord on paper - and suddenly it rusts. ~ Alfred Schnittke

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

Art only survives by striking a chord in someone's heart and offering solace and reassurance. ~ Hannah Mary Rothschild

There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy. ~ Thomas Hood

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

I could live inside a G major chord, with Grace, if she was willing. ~ Maggie Stiefvater

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

It was a feeling which he had seen before in his mother; but no chord within vibrated to it. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

It's funny how three or four notes of anger can be struck at once, creating the perfect chord of fury. ~ Tayari Jones

In the symphony of love, the lost chord is a small organ lying somewhat north of the vagina. ~ Ruth Herschberger

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

These characters were like twelve-bar blues or other chord progressions. Given the basic parameters of Batman, different creators could play very different music. ~ Grant Morrison

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

When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song. ~ G.K. Chesterton

We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us. ~ John P. Kotter

I assure you, my dear, were you to play the piano on the moon, I would hear every chord. ~ Amor Towles

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

The word discipline sometimes touches a slightly rebellious chord in our natures. Remember that it comes from the word disciple. ~ Boyd K. Packer

It turns out kids today still learn that four-chord progression when they're just picking up the guitar. ~ John Scofield

If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song. ~ Sylvia Plath

Maybe we're just supposed to try our best, whatever that is," he [Chord] said, "and hope whatever happens is meant to happen. ~ Elsie Chapman

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

Sometimes an unexpected chord change can be the difference between a good song and a great song. ~ Gary Talley

The ancient Greek mathematician Ptolemy was born some time at the end of the first century. Ptolemy based his version of trigonometry on the relationships between the chords of circles and the corresponding central angles of those chords. Ptolemy came up with a theorem involving four-sided figures that you can construct with the chords. In the meantime, mathematicians in India decided to use the measure of half a chord and half the angle to try to figure out these relationships. Drawing a radius from the center of a circle through the middle of a chord (halving it) forms a right angle, which is important in the definitions of the trig functions. These half-measures were the beginning of the sine function in trigonometry. In fact, the word sine actually comes from the Hindu name jiva. ~ Mary Jane Sterling

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

I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

Memento mori and obey the Lord.
Art and religion love the somber chord. ~ Robert Frost

It's a law, a law of the universe. Like gravity or stupidity or how a minor chord always sounds sad. ~ Catherynne M Valente

Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that. ~ Roger McGuinn

It was no half-hearted spring, this: the whole island vibrated with it as though a great, ringing chord had been struck. Everyone and everything heard it and responded. ~ Gerald Durrell

I started wanting to inject more colorful chord phrasings from the music I actually grew up on, which was Hendrix, Rolling Stones, and stuff like that. ~ Bucky Pope

The best way ah knew tae strike a chord without compromising too much tae the sickening hypocrisy, perversely peddled as decency, which fills the room, is tae stick tae the clichés. ~ Irvine Welsh

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

To create a minor 7 chord we add a b7 to a minor triad. The formula is 1 b3 5 b7. ~ Joseph Alexander

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

We borrowed it all from Coltrane. I started encouraging everybody in the band to listen to John Coltrane - 'Check it out, see what these guys do.' They take one chord, the tonic chord, and just play all over it. 'We can do that too!' I wanted to make our music something really amazing - I wanted it to be jaw-dropping and turn on a dime and do all of those things that I knew music could do, and nobody told us we couldn't do it. I shouldn't say 'I,' though - Jerry Garcia was behind it the whole way. ~ Phil Lesh

In actual pieces of music, the pitches of a chord may be duplicated and heard in many different octaves depending on the number and type of instruments playing. ~ Jonathan Peters

As Wendy watched them they burst into a chord of tinkling, girlish laughter. She felt a smile touch her own lips; not one of them could be under sixty. ~ Stephen King

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

It takes a 'Jack' to pull off any string in the world, however it takes a 'Master' to touch the chord of greatness ~ Karan Verma

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

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

We'd hold a chord for three hours if we could. ~ John Cale

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

My father would say, 'Play a scale,' and I'd play one and he'd say, 'What about the rest? There must be one above,' so we'd figure them out. I'd start the scale on the root of the chord and I'd go as far as my hand would reach without going out of position, say, five frets, and then I'd go all the way back. So when ! practised I'd start right away on scales. As well as the usual ones, I'd play whole tone scales, diminished, dominant sevenths, and chromatic scales. Every chord form, all the way up, and this took an hour. ~ Joe Pass

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

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

Genius is when you strike a chord accidently, and the ensuing music is beyond your control ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged. ~ Margaret Mitchell

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

I hardly know where I found the hardihood thus to open a conversation with a stranger; the step was contrary to my nature and habits: but I think her occupation touched a chord of sympathy somewhere; ~ Charlotte Bronte

Here, I can hear things, the world throbs differently, silence thrums like a chord strummed eons ago, music in the aspen trees and in the firs and burr oaks and even in the fields of drying corn. ~ Nickolas Butler

I was 16 when I started playing. I borrowed a friend's acoustic guitar, and I had a Beatles chord book. I just taught myself that way. ~ Britt Daniel