Able Quote by Dweezil Zappa

It's very important to have a good song - one where you can strip away all the production and just play it on guitar…

— Lights

Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away…

— Taylor Momsen

As a song-writer I have always written with one instrument - either guitar or piano - because I believe that if a song is…

— Chris de Burgh

Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and…

— Roy Wood

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not…

— Glenn Danzig

I can write songs without a guitar.

— Meredith Brooks

I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say,…

— Keith Richards

It is amazing when you try and write songs without an instrument. It kind of forces the melody to be honed it. It has…

— Graham Colton

In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part…

— Beck

I think a "song" is, like, just play it on the guitar and sing it. You look out and see thousands of covers of…

— Andrew Wyatt

It's not crazy to want to have certain songs be developed harmonically and still want to make noise with the guitar. And you can…

— Elvis Costello

I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down and play…

— Tom Petty