Minor Chord Quotes

#1. I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

Kate Chopin

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

Keith Richards

#3. It's a law, a law of the universe. Like gravity or stupidity or how a minor chord always sounds sad.

Catherynne M Valente

#4. Or, if he's feeling more poetic, it might be Now, Frobisher, the clarinet is the concubine, the violas are yew trees in the cemetery, the clavichord is the moon, so ... let the east wind blow that A minor chord, sixteenth bar onwards.

David Mitchell

#5. I am an Author a person that plays with words that dance in the minds of others

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#6. You're in for a treat, sweetheart. Us southern boys eat pussy like pie. And I like pie." Yes.

C.D. Reiss

#7. Looking at a sea bird flapping its wings against the full moon I wish I could grow wings and fly away from everything and be free. I wish I could lose myself in the vast ocean and float away from all this pain in my heart.

Monica James

#8. To create a minor 7 chord we add a b7 to a minor triad. The formula is 1 b3 5 b7.

Joseph Alexander

#9. With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others.

Helen Slater

#10. That hurts my pride, Watson. It is a petty feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal matter with me now..."

-Sherlock Holmes-
-The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Five Orange Pips-

Arthur Conan Doyle

#11. 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.

Neal Ascherson

#12. Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Joyce Meyer

#13. The third note in a chord is what depicts whether it's major or minor. Rhythm and Blues hardly ever uses it because it means that the melody is free to move between major and minor because you're not clashing with the third being depicted one way or the other.

Robert Palmer

#14. Lord, bend me, or I shall rot.
Lord do not bend me too much, for I shall break.
Lord bend me too much, who cares if I break!

Nikos Kazantzakis

#15. I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

Joni Mitchell

#16. When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We faced big limits in what we could learn, where we could be and who we could reach.

Vivek Wadhwa

#17. Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#18. I write to create a sky where the moon can touch the sun and not get burned.

Jenim Dibie