Quote by Bart Howard

It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. I like when it's really…

— Halsey

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

— Jillian Hervey

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

— Ben E. King

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

— Jack Antonoff

It takes me, like, half an hour to write the lyrics for a song. They just come out.

— Sia

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

— Alanis Morissette

Songwriting is telling short stories. But instead of 15 to 20 pages, it's three to five minutes.

— Tyler Childers

Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty minutes.

— Greg Lake

It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.

— Bob Seger

However long the song is was how long it took us to write it.

— Geezer Butler

There's a lot of hurry up and wait. But it gives you time to write a song.

— John Legend

It sometimes takes 6 months or more after you've written and recorded it before you can start to enjoy the experience of singing the song.

— Matt Shultz