Major Chords

"Life doesn't happen in major chords," said Martin Gore of Depeche Mode in an interview once.

It’s a challenge to use them…to appeal to the universal without sounding too preachy, didactic, or too simple. If you stay small, the work lacks resonances. I don’t think there’s a formula to this, more of a recipe that is constantly reworked.  

It’s knowing when to strike the universal chord that balances the whole piece. When you change directions of the tempest you’ve created.

Yeah, so you bridge your most intimate, subjective experiences with the force of the powerful mathematics. That’s the meat of it.