Acoustic guitar Quote by Taylor Momsen

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

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

I don't play a lot of instruments so when it comes to the song writing process I don't have a lot to do with…

— Barry Kerch

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

— Dave Grohl

I don't concentrate on technical things like where a microphone is placed and things like that. As a producer, I try to keep the…

— Guy Berryman

Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they…

— Valerie June

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

When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really open and…

— Martin Gore

Most of the time, I write songs with the arrangements all at once, in my head. There's the producer side of me that's always…

— Joe Satriani

The way I look at it, I'm a songwriter that just happens to play guitar.

— Rick Nielsen

Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.

— Charles de Lint

It's always amazing seeing the song-writing process. A song just starts off as just an idea or a story you want to tell. It…

— Manika