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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

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✓Similar Perspectives

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

— Bruce Springsteen

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

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

— Taylor Swift

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

There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs.

— Christine McVie

I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.

— R. Kelly

I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished.

— Leonard Cohen

Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.

— Trevor Rabin

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

— Ben E. King

✗Opposing Perspectives

The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.

— Yoko Ono