You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.
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I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.
I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.
For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating.
I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.
What I couldn't say verbally I was able to express physically through the guitar.
I used to try and make up visually for what I couldn't play as a musician. I used to get into very incredible visual things where, in order just to make one chord more lethal, I'd make it a really lethal looking thing, whereas really it's just going to be picked normally.
With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.
You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.
There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.