Capture Quote by Macklemore

I've had songs that were spread out over a number of years, and I've written some in ten minutes, and everything in between.

— Mark Lanegan

I usually just write a song and record it that day, and then that's kind of it. I'm not very good at going back…

— Arlo Parks

I'm not one of those people who write all the time. Sometimes I'll go several months without writing anything. I'll sometimes second guess myself…

— Warren Haynes

I decided a handful of years ago that I just want to write songs that you can understand as soon as you put the…

— Ben Gibbard

Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty minutes.

— Greg Lake

It can take me many months to write one of my own songs.

— Mary Gauthier

It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.

— Kris Allen

During those times like in my early years as a writer I could actually write a song in ten minutes because all of a…

— Ben E. King

I write songs on a course of time that's comfortable for me. I would probably never write a song from start to finish in…

— James Vincent McMorrow

It always starts as journaling for me. I find if I try to write a song, it doesn't feel as sincere as if I…

— JP Saxe

I'm writing all the time. And as the songs begin to coalesce, I'm not doing anything else but writing. I wish I were one…

— Leonard Cohen

Every song that I start to write, I wonder if I'll be able to write it.

— Emmylou Harris