Acoustic guitar Quote by Graham Parker

I've never written songs, I've never brought any songs to System, but as far as arranging, I've always had arrangement ideas.

— John Dolmayan

We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the…

— Tommy Shaw

It's been neat to find out different writing strategies. I've been in the room with so many different writers. Sometimes, you write with tracks,…

— Kane Brown

Conceptually, I've always gravitated towards arrangements that weren't just presenting one idea. I like to look at my songs as having a main part,…

— Tycho

My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.

— Robin Trower

As I kid, I was always jealous of the music that my favorite bands had written - but not really of how they played.…

— Jonny Greenwood

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.

— Richard Thompson

Even before I wrote any songs, I had this idea of a triangle where the voice was at the top, some sort of guitar…

— Panda Bear

I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is,…

— Florence Welch

When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso…

— Andres Segovia

We really like having songs where we think the arrangement is just as important as the melodies, even though they're typically not.

— M. Shadows

Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.

— Dave Grohl