Beats Quote by Louis Armstrong

I knew a lot of chords, but they weren't the chords that came with the melody that came with the idea I had for…

— Tom T. Hall

Memories sometimes play the melody that makes you dance when you don't want to.

— Bernajoy Vaal

I don't like no fancy chords. Just the boogie. The drive. The feeling. A lot of people play fancy but they don't have no…

— John Lee Hooker

No harmony. No melody. No rhythm. No bullshit.

— Phill Niblock

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

— Olivia Rodrigo

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting…

— Brian Eno

All my songs were made at the end of the neck, 'farmer's corner' chords.

— David Berman

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.

— Carla Bley

So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't want to use big pad chords…

— Midge Ure

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

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

The melodies I come up with, they're not normal.

— Future