Learn Quote by Susan Tedeschi

Sometimes words come easily and sometimes they don't. Most songs take me twenty minutes to write.

— Jillian Hervey

It sometimes takes 6 months or more after you've written and recorded it before you can start to enjoy the experience of singing the song.

— Matt Shultz

The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you put in…

— Grimes

Some songs go super-quick; some take a really long time.

— Ryan Lewis

I think the trick is that you have to change how you take stuff in. Maybe the early beginnings of a song come out…

— Conor O'Brien

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

Time passes and you must move on Half the distance takes you twice as long So you keep on singing for the sake of…

— The Eagles

Songs seem to take me a long time. I don't know why; they're not especially excellent for taking so long.

— Leonard Cohen

I have a hard time memorizing stuff. I'm always in the process of writing a new song, so trying to learn a new one…

— Eminem

A conundrum of music is that music brings people together, yet to become a skilled musician involves a certain amount of lonely time in…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

I think, sometimes, artists release music too fast. If you just sit back and listen to the track for a little bit you could…

— Schoolboy Q

Anytime you spend six months on a song (Born to Run), there's something not exactly going right. A song should take about three hours.

— Steven Van Zandt