Chord Changes Quotes

It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.

I have absolutely no interest in rock and roll. I'm just being David Bowie. Mick Jagger is rock and roll. I mean, I go out and my music is roughly the format of rock and roll, I use the chord changes of rock and roll, but I don't feel I'm a rock and roll artist. I'd be a terrible rock artist, absolutely ghastly.

After 35 years of bone-crushing rock guitar playing, I'm finally starting to get my head out of the harmonic sand and learning how to play over chord changes.

My favorite punk rock song is 'Linoleum' by NOFX. That's pure harmony, the coolest chord changes.

I knew I had to have a hit. I would get no more chances. Analyzing what they had in common I discovered they had many similar elements: harmonic rhythm, placement of the chord changes, choice of harmonic progressions, similar instrumentation, vocal phrases, drum fills, content, even the timbre of the lead solo voice. I decided to write a song that incorporated all these elements in one record.

The way jazz works is that we take a theme, and then we write using the same structure, same chord changes, and then we can do different tunes.

I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.

When we do reggae, it's normally a one-chord or a two-chord, or whatever it is. With Sting, there'll be chord changes, key changes.

I don't need to hear Bill to go through a song. I need to hear Keith to go through a song. I know Bill will be playing what I'm playing anyway. I need to hear Keith because it's all there: the time, the chord changes, and all the licks you have to follow.

There are certain choices you make as a songwriter, based on vowel sounds and melody and chord changes.

I like inventive melodies and chord changes, a little bit of creativity.

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.

He's the reason why I write music. If he's reading this - James Taylor, I'd love to work with you! My mom would put headphones on her belly before I was born, so I've been listening to him literally all of my life. When my dad played me 'Walking Man,' I heard those chord changes and that melody, it completely blew me away.

I knew if I wanted to improvise over chord changes, I'd have to figure out all the scales that went with all those chords.

The Beatles changed music forever. They took rock n' roll from a medium that was about cars and girls and gave it context, interesting chord changes and true musicianship.

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