#chord

I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord. ↗

— Neil Young

#chord #every #finger #i #i think

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#chord #cream #enough #filled #giraffe

I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to. ↗

— Maurice Gibb

#because #chords #heard #i #i can

The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because it makes it really emotional. ↗

— David Guetta

#better #changes #chord #clubs #emotional

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

— Woody Guthrie

#more #off #play #showing #than

'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR. ↗

— Larry Hagman

#back #because #character #chord #dallas

Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own. ↗

— Utada Hikaru

#chords #decide #detail #doing #go

Country music is three chords and the truth. ↗

— Harlan Howard

#country #country music #music #three #truth

I used to help Viv with the chords and melodies sometimes. ↗

— Neil Innes

#help #i #melodies #sometimes #used

There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world. ↗

— Tori Amos

#chord #classical #complicated #especially #jazz