Long Quote by Kendrick Lamar

I've always said it took me 20 years to find out how to write a song in 20 minutes.

— Bart Howard

Time passes and you must move on Half the distance takes you twice as long So you keep on singing for the sake of…

— The Eagles

If you give yourself too much time, you kind of over-obsess about the music. It's not supposed to be like that.

— Joss Stone

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

— John Popper

Sometimes the song that takes the littlest amount of time are sometimes the best songs you ever do.

— Jonathan McReynolds

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

— Donald Fagen

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

— Jack Antonoff

Sometimes a song can take up to a year to write, and because I waited that year and waited to work on it that…

— Skrillex

I don't think I've ever spent more than an hour on any one song, but that doesn't count the thinking that goes on beforehand.

— Henry Mancini

People's attentions spans are getting shorter and shorter. I don't want to cater to that necessarily but, just for myself, it feels like more…

— Phil Elvrum

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

— Taylor Swift

Some songs go super-quick; some take a really long time.

— Ryan Lewis