15 minutes Quote by Patty Griffin

Basically it takes me very little time to write a song. If I find myself taking more than an hour to do it I…

— Bernie Taupin

I think, for me, one of the biggest things that I struggle with is keeping the excitement up when writing a song. A lot…

— Brendon Urie

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

It takes me forever to write songs most of the time.

— Mark Linkous

I sit and I write automatically. I don't really try to write. My subconscious mind takes over and writes the songs for me. Songs…

— Brian Wilson

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

— Alanis Morissette

Usually when I'm writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.…

— Billy Joel

I'm sort of an 'automatic' writer. I'm not much for chiseling away at songs or working at them for days trying to make them…

— Leon Russell

Sometimes words come easily and sometimes they don't. Most songs take me twenty minutes to write.

— Jillian Hervey

I feel like every time I write a song, it feels like the first time I wrote a song. It's just as hard. It…

— Shawn Mendes

I try to write a lot and my process is kind of back and forth. I procrastinate a lot so when I do sit…

— Courtney Barnett

When I write music it's hard for me to keep it going repetitively.

— Visionist