Be patient Quote by Ben Harper

Songs are like anything else - they dictate to you which ones go together and which ones don't.

— Brian Fallon

You want to sing this song. And so it goes on until eventually, after - well, however long it can take - sometimes a…

— Nick Lowe

The whole time you're bouncing ideas off each other, you continue to try and push the songs as far as you can take them…

— Benji Madden

Usually, one of us will bring a song to the group that they think we could arrange and perform well. If the group agrees,…

— Mitch Grassi

Sometimes songs need extra time and space to really play themselves out, and some songs it's like, this is all you need, a straightforward…

— Doug Martsch

Every song you write you think is the last one you're going to manage. You put everything you've got into the song, and you've…

— Jakob Dylan

You have to sit with the songs until they start to live. Or do things straight-up spontaneously. I set up a beat just like…

— Jamie Lidell

Every song is completely different. Sometimes they come like a lump of clay and it's your job to chip away and find out what's…

— Brett Dennen

I would have to work on the song and figure out how they wanted the song done, because they're such high-intensity songs. We figure…

— Tom Araya

First you date the songs, and then you get engaged and then you marry them. They have to stand the test of time, because…

— Marc Anthony

Sometimes song happens all at once where you sit down and the lyrics and the music just come out. So there definitely isn't one…

— Jonathan Jackson

Sometimes something becomes a lot better. It's like a puzzle . You can't force a round brick into a square. It's a delicate thing.…

— Oh Land