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There have been 700 or 800 songs I've written over the last 60 years, as I went through different periods of writing. I listen…

— Neil Sedaka

I've written a lot of songs in the last couple years, but writing a lot of songs doesn't always mean writing good songs.

— Ben Gibbard

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

— Eddie Rabbitt

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

— Alexa Borden

I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about…

— Jeff Tweedy

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

— Anonymous

All the issues you deal with get more complicated as you get older; it takes more focus to write songs that reflect what you've…

— Lou Barlow

It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's…

— Charlie Haden

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

Most of our artists are songwriters, so the songs are still central to all this. If you don't have great songs, it doesn't matter…

— Scott Borchetta

It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.

— Yolandi Visser

It's very hard to get good songs because a lot of writers record their own; they keep the best for themselves.

— Olivia Newton-John