Write great songs that sound amazing if sung and played on the piano or acoustic guitar. Always encourage sing-alongs! Be prolific! Say… — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
My foundation is acoustic guitar, and it is finger-picking and all of that and sort of an orchestral style of playing. Lead… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is… — Robin Zander Copy Share Image
My parents got me a $25 Kent steel-string acoustic guitar when I was around 12. The following Christmas, my parents bought me… — Alex Lifeson Copy Share Image
I sit around and play acoustic guitar - usually acoustic, sometimes electric, occasionally piano, but more often guitar, just trying to come… — Colin Hay Copy Share Image
I most enjoy sitting down with the acoustic guitar and just fiddling around and trying to come up with something like a… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
It all started in a local park in El Paso called Madeleine Park. At a ditch, a very small ditch, that everybody… — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really… — Martin Gore Copy Share Image
With my songs, the question is always, 'Can you pull it off live, alone on just an acoustic guitar?' That's the litmus… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then… — Colin Hay Copy Share Image
I started out in the folk music world only because of the way my songs were written and performed, with just an… — John Prine Copy Share Image
For 20 years I've been screaming at these guitar companies, saying, 'It's abnormal to put your arm around an acoustic guitar that… — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich… — Steve Forbert Copy Share Image
I remember writing Sunday Morning' and Gwen wasn't feeling well that day and I had an acoustic guitar and I started singing,… — Tony Kanal Copy Share Image
Going to high school in rural Florida, we always partied down in the woods. Somebody - one of the rednecks - would… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
It's been neat to find out different writing strategies. I've been in the room with so many different writers. Sometimes, you write… — Kane Brown Copy Share Image
In 2002 I did a big tour of Europe, by train, by myself, on foot, all the time walking from train station… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
When I became a parent and hit my thirties, I got my hands on an acoustic guitar. I started writing quiet, simple… — Withered Hand Copy Share Image
One thing I really hate about people who play both acoustic and electric is if they try to play electric style on… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that… — Gregg Allman Copy Share Image
I did a smaller gig with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. In one song, something wrong happened with the drum… — Violante Placido Copy Share Image
There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that… — Rick Derringer Copy Share Image
It's interesting to see how acoustic guitars are emerging as a primary instrument once again ... reminds me very much of what… — Kenny Loggins Copy Share Image
I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
I had different bands. I played with the Acoustic Warriors for the most part, without girl singers. It was the same kind… — Dan Hicks Copy Share Image
I used to take the kids in groups and, just for my own creativity, just start to play acoustic guitar and role… — Peaches Copy Share Image
My first synthesizer was the VCS3. I got it in Bristol in the late Sixties, long before Pink Floyd used them. I… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
After Hurricane Sandy, my family and I stayed in our apartment in lower Manhattan before things normalized. We're lucky enough to live… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just… — Graham Parker Copy Share Image
I grew up playing the saxophone. I joined the jazz band in high school, but somewhere along the way I realized the… — Chris Carmack Copy Share Image
I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs,… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
A lot of writing I do on tour. I do a lot on airplanes. At home, I write a lot, obviously. When… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
The early influences, in many ways, were in Baltimore. I was passing open windows where there might be a radio playing something… — Jerry Leiber Copy Share Image
Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can… — Taylor Momsen Copy Share Image
I find that I get nervous before I play. Even sound checks can give me anxiety and screw with my mind. But… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the… — Johnny Winter Copy Share Image
I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
I started playing the acoustic guitar for more singer-songwriter type stuff. I bet if I would have gotten more approval for my… — Jill Sobule Copy Share Image
I can't tell you how many times I've had a friend tell me, in this tender and discreet voice, 'It's just you… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
If you play "I Don't Want To Know" by Fleetwood Mac loud enough -- you can hear Lindsey Buckingham's fingers sliding down… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
