Every Quote by Tom Lehrer

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing…

— Tom Lehrer

The way that I've always viewed my career, I always do what comes to me. I don't write forty songs per album, I write…

— Rick DeJesus

When I wrote for myself before as an artist, I probably wrote about 15, 20 songs a year. I thought that was a lot.…

— LP

I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was…

— Regina Spektor

Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty minutes.

— Greg Lake

I've always tended to write songs prolifically.

— David Bowie

I'd written songs since I was 16, but I never thought that I would be a musician full time.

— Shura

I write songs every day, but only a few of them get finished.

— Kevin Parker

I've written 90 percent of the songs in my career, on all my albums.

— Toby Keith

I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.

— Billy Burke

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

— Leif Garrett

When I was a mailman, writing songs was my escape from the regular world, and now writing songs is my job. And I've always…

— John Prine