#chords

When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song. ↗

— Alicia Keys

#backward #chords #experimenting #favorite #first

I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords. ↗

— B. B. King

#good #horrible #i

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place. ↗

— David Bowie

#chords #few #place #put #reflective

I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape. ↗

— Andrew Dost

#chords #fit #folds #healthy #how

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

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

— Neil Innes

#help #i #melodies #sometimes #used

My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there. ↗

— Brian Eno

#back #bar #broke #cause #chords

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#chords #compared #conversation #love #may

So as I think back on it now, I think it is safe to say that music is something you both hear and feel. I also realize that feelings change frequently and that for the most part, they are not a constant. They change from high to low, happy to sad, content to ecstatic and back down again. Not all music has the same purpose, but most music makes you feel "something. ↗

— David Archuleta

#david-archuleta #change

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out. ↗

— Carla Bley

#i #like #lush #out #parts