Born Quote by Tarja Turunen

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

Some of them take weeks, some of them take months, some of them take days. Each song is so incredibly different.

— Benson Boone

Sometimes, entire songs are ready in just about five minutes.

— Ilaiyaraaja

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

— Ryan Lewis

It takes us a long time to write a song that we all really like, so it makes sense that it would take a…

— Matt Berninger

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 songs come along at their own pace when they are ready.

— Christine Lavin

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

— Jillian Hervey

I think sometimes you are born with a song.

— Nana Mouskouri

There's a lot of hurry up and wait. But it gives you time to write a song.

— John Legend

There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's not common…

— Tim Finn

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