Big Quote by Midge Ure

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

— Natalie Prass

In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an…

— Graham Parker

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

— Olivia Rodrigo

I guess the approach to song writing for me so far has been to use more chords and less math.

— Mick Barr

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

Sometimes it takes us a long time to build up songs, and we really work the structures over and over and build in lots…

— Lee Ranaldo

We really like having songs where we think the arrangement is just as important as the melodies, even though they're typically not.

— M. Shadows

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

— David Berman

Sometimes you write songs that don't all fit together. What do you, just throw them away? This might be a chance for growth and…

— Amanda Shires

There's so much more you can do with the dynamics of songs when they're simple... I think it was what I needed in my…

— Sarah Blasko

My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.

— Robin Trower

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

— Max Martin