Certain Quote by Paul Simon

Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.

— Steve Earle

Sometimes it's really quick, and sometimes it's really long. There's no formula for writing songs.

— Jack Antonoff

Writing a song isn't that hard. Writing a good song is difficult. Let's face it, we're faced with taking a complex feeling or event,…

— Ann Reed

It's funny: I look at songs, and I guess they each tell a story, and the different songs talk about different things. But they're…

— Dianne Reeves

Every song is a long process. First I have to write a story for it, and then to make it into a song, I…

— Sonita Alizadeh

I don't think comic timing is the same as music timing, but I definitely find that I've learned from just writing in general that…

— Steve Martin

It's much easier to write a song for a musical than just writing a song because, writing for a musical, you know what the…

— Leslie Bricusse

Yeah, once the song is written, it just complexifies the profile of it to have the music and the words at odds. It comes…

— David Berman

I love story songs. It's just, for me, they're harder to write, and sometimes they sound too intended or something.

— Conor Oberst

All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as a melody…

— Chester Bennington

Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. Theyre all full of subtext, and some…

— Andrew Bird

When you listen to the music, you see little movies in your head, and that's the beauty of it, I think. People can make…

— Sune Rose Wagner