Amount Quote by Ann Reed

Sometimes it's really quick, and sometimes it's really long. There's no formula for writing songs.

— Jack Antonoff

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

— Joe Elliott

A lot of times, somebody will say something and it will give you a good title. So you carry a pencil with you and…

— Gene Autry

Sometimes words come easily and sometimes they don't. Most songs take me twenty minutes to write.

— Jillian Hervey

Every song is a long process. First I have to write a story for it, and then to make it into a song, I…

— Sonita Alizadeh

You don't have to be as good a writer to write a song; it's a very different process to writing straight prose. To learn…

— Tom Odell

It's much easier to write a song for a musical than just writing a song because, writing for a musical, you know what the…

— Leslie Bricusse

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

— Tom Waits

Writing a song is almost like cheating-writing because you don't have to finish your sentences, you don't have to use any punctuation, no one's…

— Mirah

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like…

— Jeff Tweedy

Writing a song is like - you're writing a song all the time. It's just when it pops out. It's been there all the…

— Mick Jagger

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not…

— Glenn Danzig