Donald Dunn Quotes

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

I think a good song is a good song is a good song.

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

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.

Good songs are what a good band is all about. When you have a good song that stands up to the test of the time, that is the most important thing.

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.

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

Good music is good music.

Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can't rescue a dog of a song.

As long as it's good music. I love all music. It's got to be constructed properly.

The personality and songwriting of Holy Ghost! trumps the originality card any day.

I don't think a good singer or a great singer is either of those things without a great song.

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.

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

The Doors were never that good as musicians.

A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!

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.

A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.

I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

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

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.

Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.

I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song.

A good song is a good song.