Chord Overstreet Quotes

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 tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.

Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

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.

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.

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.

You can play the piano with the white keys only or you can play it with only the black keys. But for harmony you must use the black and the white keys.

Music is really, really mathematical.

If the chords change a lot over the course of a song, it's better to stay within the same melodic structure.

The feeling that you want the listener to get, you should get yourself when you first hit that chord, and that melody comes to mind.

I listen to the timbre of the music, and I fit my voice to blend with that timbre.

Music is science more than art, and it is the main code of the universe.

For any music aficionados out there, if you just play E to G, with a cool hairdo, you can't go wrong.

I think I'm much more of a guitar-songwriter than a singer. I start with chords and then test out melodies rather than improvising over it.

I always say that to compose is to think. Playing is good, it's useful, but it's how your intellect puts the ideas together that will bring hands to write or to play. So, it's really a combination of many things; hearing sounds, hearing layers of counterpoints, of chords.

A violin is tuned to a fifth. But a guitar is tuned to a fourth with a one-third middle. It is very perplexing to composers.

Philosophically, I think riffs that start with E repeating itself are almost guaranteed to be great.

If I could take a punch like that, I might have been able to think up a name besides George for all my sons.

Music, as long as it exists, will always take its departure from the major triad and return to it. The musician cannot escape it any more than the painter his primary colors or the architect his three dimensions.

Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.

There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are just arithmetic. Without the empty chord, music is just noise.