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People make songs so that somebody else will hear them and want to do them. I guess it's an indication that the songs aren't…

— Tom Waits

To make a song is a gift, and once it's done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other…

— Ryan Adams

It's easier for fans to consume one or two songs at a time. Not everybody buys records, so some songs can get overlooked.

— Chris Lane

It's a double-headed coin, because technology is a convenience but it's stifled our attention spans. At one time, albums had songs that were like…

— Cee Lo Green

Songs don't just suddenly arrive like a taxi you have to work on them and you have to put a lot of time and…

— Chris de Burgh

Songs need to have the ability to change and to grow for sure. They take on lives of their own. Some songs just don't…

— Nick Cave

There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers it on…

— Van Morrison

Songs are songs, and to reduce them is to waste them.

— James Murphy

I think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was cool, or…

— Paul McCartney

It's a different kind of satisfaction, different kind of enjoyment than making your own songs, to remake someone else's song that you really like.

— Mark Lanegan

I think that if they want people to listen to ten or twelve songs, they have to give the listener a reason to listen…

— David Byrne

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice…

— Ben Harper