Big problem Quote by David Macklovitch

You're just playing the songs over and over again and you maybe lose sight of the writing side of you. You're not just a…

— Ellie Rowsell

It's always a blast playing the new stuff. But I feel like songs, in a way, are never finished. You get to a point…

— Chuck Ragan

Songs don't just suddenly arrive like a taxi you have to work on them and you have to put a lot of time and…

— Chris de Burgh

I am never excited to play through a song all the way, because it can reveal more flaws that mean more work. For some…

— Robert Lopez

Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it sorta surprises…

— Bruce Springsteen

I think, sometimes, artists release music too fast. If you just sit back and listen to the track for a little bit you could…

— Schoolboy Q

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a…

— Fiona Apple

[Some] songs are all so detailed and in-depth that it takes forever to finish them.

— Vic Fuentes

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

— Taylor Swift

It's taken a long time but eventually when I had the songs in place and demos right and I found myself a manager, that's…

— James Blunt

I'm always working on multiple songs at a time.

— Wayne Static

I always work on the songs all together up until the very end. I never mix a song and think, "Okay, now that one's…

— Adam Granduciel