Chords Quote by Mat Kearney

Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies.

— Flume

Even though, theoretically, being a composer and being a songwriter are the same thing, in my brain, they are completely different. When I am…

— Michael Bacon

Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The words of…

— Robert Burns

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

These days I keep a journal, so I'm constantly sketching down my thoughts, or lines that come to me...ideas for songs. And then when…

— Ani DiFranco

Wherever inspiration comes from, it's like I'll hear a melody and chords, almost a rough structure of the whole thing [song]. I'll just hear…

— Chris Wyse

Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a Townes Van…

— Conor Oberst

I was really into the music of Cream after I finished composing the music for 'BTTB.'

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room,…

— Josh Groban

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around…

— Bruce Cockburn

I'm the only actor who has done everything, right from anchoring shows to composing and singing songs to theatre to movies.

— Javed Jaffrey

Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.

— Barbara Kolb

As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden,…

— Gary Hamel

Playing is much, much harder than composing in my opinion, becoming a player. If you want to be a player for all your life…

— John Powell

I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.

— Steve Swallow