Tom Petty Quotes

If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.

I sing a bit and play guitar.

I love writing songs.

What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano.

I just play the guitar and write songs.

Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.

As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

I sing a little bit. I got a guitar for my 16th birthday.

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 have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way.

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

If you've got a good song, it's easy to play. But you can't make a bad song sound good no matter who you have to play on it.

My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.

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

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

I've written my own music, and I play guitar.

I wasn't worried about flash or persona... It's all about writing a good, solid song.

It took me a long time to accept the idea that the guitar can take the place of a singer.

I started playing guitar when I was nine and just fell in love with that - I've been playing nonstop ever since.

I started writing once I got the ukulele.

I love to sing - whenever I am not on set, I am usually in my room jamming out with my guitar.

I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know the piano. I know everything about music that helps build the music that go along with creating the whole art form, you know what I'm saying?

But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good.