Beginning middle and end Quote by Steve Earle

Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it to writing…

— Avey Tare

I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain words with…

— Paul Simon

Every single song I write has to feel like it has a beginning, middle, and end, like a movie or a short story.

— Grace Potter

I've had songs that were spread out over a number of years, and I've written some in ten minutes, and everything in between.

— Mark Lanegan

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

— Tyler Childers

Songwriting never gets old. There's always stuff to write about.

— Tori Kelly

Call me old fashioned, but I love songs that end. As a songwriter, I feel like you put a fade out when you can't…

— Courtney Act

The best songs that I write usually come in, like, two minutes, and I think a lot of songwriters would probably say those kind…

— Lauren Hart

“Try not to sound like those singer-songwriters that go on and on with ten-minute, barely intelligible stories that everyone endures until the next song…

— Loren Weisman

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

— Taylor Swift

I'm a very slow songwriter; it takes me sometimes years to write one song, if I ever finish.

— Michael McDonald

During those times like in my early years as a writer I could actually write a song in ten minutes because all of a…

— Ben E. King