I've always been attracted to odd chord changes and…

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

— Kim Shattuck

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

— Rodney Crowell

Everything repeats itself. There ain't but so many notes on the scale, there ain't but so many chord changes, for real, and there ain't…

— Philip Bailey

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.

— Allan Holdsworth

I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with…

— Billy Corgan

I thrive on change. That's probably why my chord changes are weird, because chords depict emotions. They'll be going along on one key and…

— Joni Mitchell

I loved Jimmy Reed, the chord changes, the lyrics.

— Sixto Rodriguez

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,…

— Jeff Lynne

I got bored with the old way - it came too easy. I worked until I could play and chord changes at any tempo…

— Don Ellis

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…

— Charlie Watts

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.

— Shaggy

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

— Bob Spitz

John Prine in particular... just the chord changes combined with the words. He definitely can make you cry a little bit. Just a little…

— Kurt Vile

The way jazz works is that we take a theme, and then we write using the same structure, same chord changes, and then we…

— Tommy Chong

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…

— Paul Gilbert