Lionel Richie
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It is a receiving, isn't it?
Sometimes you just have to just blank it out.
Some people call it meditation.
Some people have all kind of names for it.
I just love to listen to silence.
By the way, there's only 12 notes, Joe.
So everything that has ever happened that you've ever heard on any radio, it's only 12 notes.
So how do you turn 12 notes into something that sounds new, different?
And so in the silence, and all you have to do is learn how to figure out what are the four chords?
Because if you've got four or five chords, you can write a whole album.
But it's the melody that goes on top that you have to be able to hear.
And so once I learned that Marvin and Smokey and, you know, Michael Quincy and, you know, these are Hendrix.
I saw the poster coming in, you know.
Not only careers, they had their unique sound out of 12 notes.