Chuck Quote by Ian Dury

You write a lot of bad songs before you write good ones. It takes time!

— Taylor Momsen

I've never made a bad song.

— Justin Bieber

I work hard at that, but the fact that there are a lot of good songs means there are also a lot of really…

— John Fogerty

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

— Anonymous

You can write a million songs that are 'good', but they just aren't good enough.

— Alexa Borden

I always wrote little songs, but they were really bad.

— Alex G

It takes a lot of good songs to write a great song!

— Sydney Sierota

I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

— Taylor Swift

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

— Eddie Rabbitt

Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded.

— Ahmet Ertegun

My attitude these days is, if you write a bad song, what are they gonna do, throw you in songwriter jail?

— John Hiatt

The best songs I write in 20 minutes.

— Evan Dando