Cases Quote by Dan Jenkins

“Try not to sound like those singer-songwriters that go on and on with ten-minute, barely intelligible stories that everyone endures until the next song…

— Loren Weisman

It takes a long time to write 10 good songs. Sometimes you have to write 30 to get 10 good ones.

— Eddie Rabbitt

Songs being nine to 10 minutes long? Everyone is scared to to do it.

— Thundercat

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

— Tyler Childers

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

— Jack Antonoff

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

— Jillian Hervey

Some of the best songs I've written, I've written in 10 minutes.

— Christine McVie

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

We've written something like 900 songs in all.

— Barry Mann

The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.

— Leonard Cohen

It takes us a long time to write a song that we all really like, so it makes sense that it would take a…

— Matt Berninger

Some people, it [songwriting] comes faster. Some people, it comes slower.

— Leonard Cohen