“Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.” TogetherSongLordShareFiguresMy FamilyGuitarAcousticsAcoustic GuitarInstrumentation Author:Daniel Smith
“For every Foo Fighters record, we've had two or three beautiful, acoustic-based songs, but they never usually make their way to the record, because we want to make rock records.” WayWantTwoBeautifulSongThreeRecordsRocksFighterAcousticsFoo Fighters Author:Dave Grohl
“Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.” MadeSongPracticeWrittenStageGuitarMade ItAcousticsAcoustic Guitar Author:Dave Grohl
“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 bare. You can often mislead yourself if you start with computers and samples and programming because you can disguise a bad song.” IfsWritingSongComputerTestsGuitarProgrammingDisguiseMisleadAcousticsSampleAcoustic Guitar Author:Martin Gore
“Inspiration and stealing are two completely different things. If somebody wants to make a song like "Stairway to Heaven" and writes a song on acoustic guitar, Led Zeppelin does not own every song that's on acoustic guitar for the rest of time.” IfsWantWritingDoeTwoDifferentInspirationSongHeavenGuitarStealingDifferent ThingsAcousticsZeppelinsAcoustic GuitarStairwaysStairway To Heaven Author:Robin Thicke
“Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with a baby in her arms singing a 500-year-old song, well, she's not a folk singer, she's not on stage with a guitar and a microphone. No, she's just an old grandmother singing an old song. The term "folk singer" has gotten warped.” YearsWellsPersonsPlaySongTermStageBabyArmsSingingStandingGuitarFolksSingersGrandmotherAcousticsMicrophonesAcoustic GuitarOld Song Author:Pete Seeger
“I still prefer to hear [Bob] Dylan acoustic, some of his electric songs are absolutely great. Electric music is the vernacular of the second half of the twentieth century, to use my father's old term.” StillsUseSongFatherTermHalfCenturyMusic IsBobElectricDylanTwentieth CenturyAcousticsVernacular Author:Pete Seeger
“I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing; the vibrations haven't been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet.” IfsWritingI CanHardSongTurnsEffectsRocksHavensGuitarHeavyStringsMetalsVibrationsBecause I CanDistortionAcousticsCollisionHeavy MetalAcoustic GuitarHard RockRock Song Author:Corey Taylor
“I was being musically mentored by a lot of people who were obviously more talented and skilled than I was, and I thought that I would just kind of learn the ropes of songwriting there - like how to do acoustic, country-esque songs, which I like because there's so much story in them.” PeopleKindCountryStoriesSongSongwritingRopeAcoustics Author:Katy Perry
“If you were a performer that only had an acoustic instrument, back in the day you couldn't hide behind your guitar pedals or the production or the vibe. There was performance and then there was the song, and that was all that you had.” IfsSongBehindsPerformancesInstrumentsGuitarProductionsPerformersAcousticsBack In The DayPedals Author:Will Sheff