Acoustics Quote by Lights

But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song…

— Dweezil Zappa

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

It's better to find a composition through an instrument and to play it and record it because you have something. It's a composition, and…

— Nicolas Godin

Try to own the songs you write because you could get lucky, but you are ultimately going to have to perform your own sounds.

— John Popper

I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all…

— Gary Numan

In a song you can kind of stage-manage everything so that it puts you in a good light. And once a song is recorded,…

— Jarvis Cocker

I got a lot more interested in songs that could hold up completely on their own, with just a guitar and voice. For some…

— Daniel Rossen

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

My goal from the very beginning was just to write good songs that don't require any production to be felt or understood. I wanted…

— Madonna Ciccone

The fact is that all the recording science and technology in the world is no substitute for a good song or for real feeling.…

— David Crosby

The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful…

— Paul McCartney

You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.

— Andrew Bird