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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 from scratch it takes you 14 hours to do just one song.

— Grandmaster Flash

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✓Similar Perspectives

It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. If I start writing a song, and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.

— Halsey

Producing just one video is a long process. First, you decide your song, then you have to figure out the arrangement of the song; will you play it on the guitar? Will you make it a music video? Once you figure that out, you record it and then edit it, which can take two to five days to finish.

— Megan Nicole

I do a lot of editing and switching around and putting little pieces together to get the right mood and personality, and it takes me forever to get a song finished.

— Matt Berninger

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

— Taylor Swift

You can make a hit song in 15 minutes. I don't know about someone else's song, but songs that people like of mine, I've created in 15 minutes or less.

— Action Bronson

I usually make records very quickly. I usually go in and record them and mix them, and I'm done within a couple of weeks.

— Jesse Harris

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

— Fetty Wap

Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.

— Young Thug

✗Opposing Perspectives

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

— Ben E. King

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 week where you'll write songs and they never see the light of day. So that process takes a long time.

— Laura Bell Bundy