Epic Quote by Kamasi Washington

[In making music] it's nice to not have a goal, to not have a set format. It's very liberating to just get out of…

— Robyn

I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.

— Carrie Underwood

There is a part of me that likes things that are epic, that's why I think a lot of my songs go to these…

— Josh Garrels

I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn't enough time for something to develop musically.

— Donald Fagen

When the song is part of the action and working as dialogue, even two minutes is way too long.

— Stephen Sondheim

I don't think comic timing is the same as music timing, but I definitely find that I've learned from just writing in general that…

— Steve Martin

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

— Thundercat

Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't…

— Marvin Hamlisch

Usually a song is supposed to be between three and four minutes; twenty minutes is a little bit long.

— John Popper

And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable.…

— Phil Lesh

Sometimes, entire songs are ready in just about five minutes.

— Ilaiyaraaja

You start to think, when you're finishing a record, in twelve- to fourteen-minute chunks. At a certain point, you do write to the format.…

— Tim Hecker