Long Quote by Jack Antonoff

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

— Jillian Hervey

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

— Ben E. King

Every song is a long process. First I have to write a story for it, and then to make it into a song, I…

— Sonita Alizadeh

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

— Tyler Childers

There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.

— Enya

Usually when I'm writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.…

— Billy Joel

Writing a song isn't that hard. Writing a good song is difficult. Let's face it, we're faced with taking a complex feeling or event,…

— Ann Reed

It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many…

— PJ Harvey

A lot of times, somebody will say something and it will give you a good title. So you carry a pencil with you and…

— Gene Autry

It's a really big struggle for me to write a song. Songs take either 30 seconds for me to write or a year or…

— Adam Levine

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

— Alanis Morissette

It sort of depends on the song. Some of them are pretty easy to write, and others take a while. I do a lot…

— Iron & Wine