Actually Quote by Pete Townshend

You start to think, when you're finishing a record, in twelve- to fourteen-minute chunks. At a certain point, you do write to the format.…

— Tim Hecker

Usually a song is supposed to be between three and four minutes; twenty minutes is a little bit long.

— John Popper

When you're making a record you're trying to play for the song. You want people to play it on the radio. They're not going…

— Susan Tedeschi

We have this song called 'Radio,' and I wrote that song when we needed one more song for a record. So I went back…

— Matt Skiba

Our first radio single, 'The Stage,' was eight-and-a-half minutes long. Unabashedly, we wanted to push the limits musically, lyrically, and instrumentation-wise.

— Zacky Vengeance

People often forget this - a vinyl album could only contain a maximum of 20 minutes per side!

— Ken Hensley

The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in…

— Ed O'Brien

We'd record a song that people liked and wanted to hear on the radio, and the radio wouldn't play it because it was too…

— James Hetfield

You have to make rough decisions with sequencing and work within the limitations of having good audio for 15 minutes on a vinyl side.

— Tim Hecker

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

— Tyler Childers

One thing I always loved about vinyl was the length of a side, around 20 or 22 minutes. That's the perfect length of an…

— Lee Ranaldo

The minute you make a record because you think somebody's going to play it on the radio is the minute you ought to quit.

— Chris Thile