I don't have time to stand around and listen to an…

I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.

— Jessye Norman

If you just literally stand still for a while, listen and think, things will eventually get sorted out.

— Julie Andrews

People that can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.

— Etta James

“The thing about this music is that if you just stand here and listen, you’ll never appreciate it. You’re supposed to be part of…

— Christina Lauren

We are really in a rut with the three-minute song. You know where it's going to go. If you're trying to get your message…

— Jimmy Webb

I think that the wonderful thing about music and about songs is that you can listen to a three-minute song whenever you feel you…

— Ben Gibbard

To the audience, it's like I'm changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show's almost like a 90-minute song that I…

— Steven Wright

There is a lot of fun to be had when you try and fit as many words as you can within a three-minute song,…

— Saul Williams

It kind of renews my faith in humankind that there's long attention spans left out there that can listen to a 12-minute song.

— Danny Carey

The very funny thing about "Like A Rolling Stone" is it was a six minute song, there was no music to read from. And…

— Al Kooper

I'm an extremely slow worker, very unprolific. It can take me weeks to do a three-minute song, or at least to make it sound,…

— Nick Lowe

Not too many songwriters, when they write songs go for broke. When someone does who's really good, it's astonishing. There's a reason a three-minute…

— Lou Reed

My favorite period is when we lived in the land of the three-minute song. The Motown thing - I thought they were genius in…

— Meshell Ndegeocello

I'm a big Beethoven fan, and you'll struggle to find a three-minute song on any of his stuff.

— Justin Chancellor

The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller.

— Alice Cooper