Complete Quote by Santigold

[Some] songs are all so detailed and in-depth that it takes forever to finish them.

— Vic Fuentes

When I think of music, I think of music in totality, complete.

— Donny Hathaway

Songs come to me and I hear them. At least in part, they are very complete; I hear the whole chorus, including the drum…

— Terence Trent D'Arby

I know texture is really important, but I think texture and stuff precedes songwriting a lot of the time these days.

— Grimes

It's always a blast playing the new stuff. But I feel like songs, in a way, are never finished. You get to a point…

— Chuck Ragan

I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but…

— Anonymous

It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.

— Alex Kapranos

A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to be revised…

— Stephen Sondheim

A lot of things come together to make up a song. It's just images.

— Van Morrison

It's really important to me that the songs not only stand out individually but work as a full body of work, too.

— Seinabo Sey

Sometimes songs need extra time and space to really play themselves out, and some songs it's like, this is all you need, a straightforward…

— Doug Martsch

Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that…

— Alex Turner