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 just started off on my own by learning the regular chords then the barre chords. Then I'd lean the notes that would go with them.
There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.
If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.
Yeah, I can read music and I know the names of chords.
A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth — that’s what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.
I can't write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don't never write for myself.
I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.
I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes, and a melody, a vocal melody - if it works with that, then I feel it's written and there's something there.
To play with a band all of the time, just about nightly, was good for me because I wrote lots of arrangements and I got a lot of my transposition and chords ironed out.
Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?
I tend to hear rhythm and melody, chord-progressions, long before I hear words.
Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open G chord I go right. That's how hard I play, and that's how a lot of my stage act has come about. I just go where the guitar takes me.
All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.
All I have is this guitar, these chords and the truth.
Lionel [Richie] said, "Yeah, I learned chords and stuff playin' against your albums. "
Country music is three chords and the truth.
I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.
As an actor, you want as much variety as you can muster up. Otherwise you just keep playing the same chord over and over again.
Young people are still experiencing the thrill of three chords and over-amplified guitars. They always will.