Joe Boudreau

“It didn’t take me long to realize that once you have the basic major and minor chords under your belt you’ve pretty much got 90 per cent of everything: the rest is all about your imagination, and you definitely can’t buy books on that. Once you’ve got those basic building blocks, you can go on to make something out of them. You don’t need to know how to play ‘Rock Around The Clock’ or ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ to make your own music; just get a few chords together, make up a few scales of your own, and away you go. If it sounds good to you, that’s all that counts.”
― Bernard Sumner, Chapter and Verse: New Order, Joy Division and Me