Chord Quote by Allan Holdsworth

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'm a real musician's musician: I get really geeky on chords and arrangements.

— Natalie Prass

Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with…

— Utada Hikaru

There's only seven chords, so you got to use the same ones over and over. It's all in what you do with them.

— Gary Rossington

When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.

— Joe Strummer

I'm trying to play tunes in a new way, using all the same scales, harmonies, structures, but twist everything a little bit so that…

— Allan Holdsworth

There's four chords in every song. That's the fun part - trying to make that your own.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I could write a dozen different songs with the same three or four chords, but they'd all be entirely different.

— Gary Rossington

What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.

— Joni Mitchell

Everything you do is different, and you find different chords in every character that you play that strike true with you.

— Scarlett Johansson

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

— Max Martin

I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. ... I found that by using the higher…

— Charlie Parker