#chords

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz. ↗

— Lou Reed

#chords #fine #into #jazz #pushing

If it has more than three chords, it's jazz. ↗

— Lou Reed

#jazz #more #than #three

You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard. ↗

— Pharrell Williams

#canvas #chords #come #fingers #keyboard

It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#chords #figure #fun #hand #hold

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

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#bang #chords #five #going #idiot

To some degree. I think that I've always been very much of a chordal person. The chords are the foundation of everything. Some of Yes' stuff is very linear, albeit complex, but it's single-line melodic stuff. So I kind of had to wear a different cap working with Yes. It's not so much chord-based. ↗

— Geoff Downes

#always #been #cap #chords #complex

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

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