Argument Quote by Chris Cornell

There's this existential argument that comes in, at some point, when you're over-thinking the songwriting process. There's no guarantee that the more time you…

— Chris Cornell

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

Sometimes I catch myself doing something that I've already done. The more I've done, the more that's likely to happen. Then I just throw…

— Bruce Cockburn

I guess songwriting has become a little more difficult for me over the years or maybe I regard it in a different light because…

— Justin Rutledge

I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you've experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered,…

— Mick Jagger

Basically it takes me very little time to write a song. If I find myself taking more than an hour to do it I…

— Bernie Taupin

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

Many composers are asked to come up with three great songs in ten days... But it's rare for us to pull that off. You…

— Amaal Mallik

Most songs I write are spur-of-the-moment-type things. I have to be spontaneous. If not, songwriting can bore me. There is no pre-design or idea…

— Anthony Hamilton

I often say songwriting is like trying to climb down a ladder at night. You put your foot on the next rung and test…

— Crowder

Songwriting never feels like it's me doing anything consciously except for becoming aware somehow that it's time to let something out, or let something…

— Scout Niblett

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