Lindsey Stirling Quotes

When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do.

You never learn everything on that guitar neck.

I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.

To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.

I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.

I write in all keys. I've always written in all keys. I've probably written a lot of songs in A.

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it.

Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.

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.

If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.

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.

I really love writing themes and melody.

We always had a guitar at home, but it wasn't until I was 14 when I picked it up myself when my father handed me these sheets of music of the Beatles and some other classics. That's where I learned all the chords and learned how to play and sing at the same time.

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.

Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.

The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.

There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully.

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

I use some pretty radical harmonics at the beginning of 'Heresy.'

There are only so many chords and notes in the world.

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.

There are certain choices you make as a songwriter, based on vowel sounds and melody and chord changes.

I use a lot of piano riffs in my production, and someone who I was working with said that I played so good that it sound like Beethoven.

Music is an intrinsic part of life; therefore, it is important to transport different forms of artistic expression, science, and mathematics into compositions.