Dweezil Zappa Quotes

I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me.

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 this and get the song over, I don't take it to the band, because most any good song, you can sit down and deliver it with a piano or a guitar.

There's such a huge difference between a great arrangement of riffs and a song. Sometimes the two can be the same. But the difference is a song doesn't necessarily need a riff, whereas a riff doesn't necessarily mean you've got a good song on your hands.

I think there's a good pop song in pretty much anything.

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles.

There are a million good tunes.

I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing.

I wrote a song with Kara DioGuardi called 'What If,' and it's a really beautiful song. It's kind of like a rock ballad. There's a lot of guitars and drums in it.

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

Good music is good music.

If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.

Songs are out there - they're waiting to be grabbed. I start with a phrase, musical and lyrical, words like 'I don't think so' and a nice riff. It rolls from there.

I'd say 99 per cent of the time I write on my own, just with my guitar, and then it's trying to figure out what it needs in a production sense.

A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.

I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour.

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

As long as it's good music, that's what's important.

A great song is a great song.

I think you can have the greatest lyrics in the world and if it doesn't have the best tune in the world it will suck. I mean if the music wasn't important it would just be a poem.

I'm most comfortable when you just give me a guitar and I just sing.

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.