#chords

In some types of music I'm working out all the chords one bar at a time - the whole structure, because it's about that. And there are other pieces which are really about - okay, the melody is going to start here and play through to here. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#bar #because #chords #going #here

For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating. ↗

— Suzy Bogguss

#concept #intimidating #reason #some #swing

I've been playing swing chords for a long time. ↗

— Suzy Bogguss

#chords #i #long #long time #playing

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means. ↗

— David Bowie

#always #any #been #chords #everything

The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing. ↗

— Vince Gill

#banjo #baseball #beauty #chords #club

Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five! ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#cruel #english #especially #five #i

A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music. ↗

— Charlie Daniels

#came #chords #crazy #day #friend

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched. ↗

— Paul Harris

#been #best #chords #motherhood #sympathy

Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers, chords, and instruments. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#chords #composer #directors #distributing #far

I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them. ↗

— Earl Hines

#before #chords #get #i #i think