Art work Quote by Ryan Adams

I'm always working on multiple songs at a time.

— Wayne Static

A lot of times, a bunch of songs have to be written to get to the next really good one.

— Mary Gauthier

I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them…

— Johnny Cash

I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished.

— Leonard Cohen

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.

— Conway Twitty

When I think about putting together an album, the process of listening to hundreds of songs each time and picking out the best 10…

— George Strait

There's always a group of songs that I'm working at. Some of them are 10 years old, and some of them are just a…

— Leonard Cohen

If you wait four or five years between records, it better be a masterpiece, you know? And if you keep putting them out, you're…

— Craig Finn

These days, I find I'm applying a little more patience to my process. If I look back on my work, I can see those…

— Ani DiFranco

I always work on the songs all together up until the very end. I never mix a song and think, "Okay, now that one's…

— Adam Granduciel

I tend to work on a song, generate ideas, and re-arrange it like five times, and I'm glad I take the time to do…

— Britta Phillips

Now that I have a thousand albums in my car all the time, I listen to more music. I was too lazy; I always…

— Trent Reznor