Achieve Quote by Stephen Sondheim

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

I've always thought that a lot of really good writers go wrong by getting so into the craft and the technique and perfection. Perfection…

— Patterson Hood

There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.

— Gordon Lightfoot

It takes so much energy and time to make one song perfect.

— CL

There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.

— Mstislav Rostropovich

Sometimes something becomes a lot better. It's like a puzzle . You can't force a round brick into a square. It's a delicate thing.…

— Oh Land

The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

— T Bone Burnett

Sometimes, if a song is written, in essence, to be that stripped down, it's very touchy when you start adding things, because even the…

— Chris Cornell

The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.

— Morton Feldman

Every song is completely different. Sometimes they come like a lump of clay and it's your job to chip away and find out what's…

— Brett Dennen

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

Songs don't just suddenly arrive like a taxi you have to work on them and you have to put a lot of time and…

— Chris de Burgh