Only Quote by Gary Rossington

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

— Olivia Rodrigo

There are only seven chords, and I believe every song has already been written.

— Rickey Medlocke

Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off.

— Woody Guthrie

I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.

— Dave Davies

If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.

— Woody Guthrie

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

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

— Gary Rossington

My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of chords in one song.…

— Junior Kimbrough

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

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

— Max Martin

You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around.

— Joe Perry

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

— Scarlett Johansson