Back Quote by Matt Skiba

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

— Bart Howard

I wrote a thirty-second song that I couldn't finish for a year.

— John Flansburgh

Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made…

— Pete Townshend

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

— Taylor Swift

I'm a very slow songwriter; it takes me sometimes years to write one song, if I ever finish.

— Michael McDonald

We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but…

— Travis Barker

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

— Tyler Childers

It sometimes takes 6 months or more after you've written and recorded it before you can start to enjoy the experience of singing the song.

— Matt Shultz

I wrote 'Linger' in about eight minutes. But some songs will take weeks to write.

— Guy Sebastian

It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. I like when it's really…

— Halsey

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