Attention Quote by Tim Hecker

Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made…

— Pete Townshend

Obviously it always takes longer to finish an album than you think it will. That's always going to be the case. Everything takes longer…

— Rostam Batmanglij

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

— Tyler Childers

I'm not as religious as some people about "the album." To be honest, that was a product of a format. You had vinyl, and…

— Bjork

The point of making records for me isn't to hear 300 songs in 50 minutes; it's to hear the 50-minute piece of music.

— Girl Talk

Sometimes albums can be quick, sometimes they take forever, and we're very good at taking forever.

— Curt Smith

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

— Taylor Swift

I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to me it…

— Kris Kristofferson

I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But sometimes you'll go a…

— Laura Bell Bundy

I think it takes longer for me to make a record than most artists.

— Michael McDonald

If I could make albums quicker, I'd be on a roll wouldn't I? Everything just seems to take so much time. I don't know…

— Kate Bush

I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you're recording a song…

— Grandmaster Flash