Quotes About Music

Do you know it took me 27 years to understand the C major chord on the piano?

I don't have musical theory or great chord knowledge, but what I have got me where I am.

I remember sobbing myself to sleep because I couldn't play an open G chord.

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

Those chords on 'You Won't Change Me' are huge.

Lately, I love creating ideas on my acoustic guitar. I sit in my living room for hours trying different chords.

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.

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

Rock music was the death of jazz in a way. I know there's a bunch of people who say jazz isn't dead, but I mean, rock 'n roll, you play three chords to 20,000 people; jazz, you play 20,000 chords to three people.

A lot of my friends are doctors, and the difference between me and them is there's no musical emergencies to pull me away from dinner. 'I need the chords for that song right now!' No, it can wait.

We are unique because we're the same three guys, and as Billy says, playing the same three chords.

When I first started writing songs, I was almost quite embarrassed that I couldn't read music and I still to this day don't really know what chords I'm playing, I don't know the name of them.

Maybe that's what makes my stuff different, 'cause I write it all on the bass. I can't play but a few chords on the guitar, so the bass works just fine for me.

I was driving home and thinking about what rock and roll should be about. 'Adventure and Trouble!' I thought. I sang the song first and then added the chords later.

I wanted to have absolute control over my music - from the chords and the voicings of the songs to the arrangements and the production.

We didn't want to be another post-Libertines band singing about London and playing chords.

When things are sequenced really hard, it has an effect similar to the one power chords had in the '70s.

Music shouldn't be a chore or feel like any kind of burden.

I used to do semi-classical dance as a child; I did not have a choreographer, but my mother gave me a cassette to learn from.

For me, the choreography always comes from the music.

I'd never been around a capella or really knew much about it. I feel like I know a lot about music, but what I didn't anticipate is that when every actor has to sing a different part and then do all their choreography on the same beat or on the same word, it's really hard.

I will never leave choreography and will keep doing songs, too.

There's something about making a song that everybody can sing and remember, and when you listen to it the first time, you already know the words by the second chorus, like you've always known the song. I'm obsessed with that idea.

My problem with eighties songs is they take too long to get to the chorus.