“It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.” ThinkingWritingYearsLongSongNextCasesMonthsBunch Author:Keith Urban
“If I'm over a song two weeks after I made it, I'm not going to put it out. It has to last months.” IfsMadeTwoLastsSongWeekMonthsMade ItTwo Weeks Author:Danny Brown
“You listen to your favorite song just until you're almost getting sick of it, and then it's so fun to rediscover it after a couple of months.” SongFunMonthsCoupleSickYour FavoriteFavorite Song Author:Anna Kendrick
“Some of your best songs come from a desperate attempt to escape, so sitting in an airport for hours I can just start pulling out little fragments of songs from my head. A lot of times a melody will just occur to me and be my companion for a couple of months.” LittlesI CanSongHoursMonthsCoupleSittingDesperateCompanionMelodyPullingFragmentsAirports Author:Andrew Bird
“If I didn't make a single song in two months, I'm slippin'. You can't just party every night.” IfsTwoNightSongPartyMonthsEvery NightTwo Months Author:G-Eazy
“There is a string attached to Maia Sharp's voice. And when she sings, you find that the other end is attached to your gut. Her voice is lush and sensual and the emotions she articulates resonate with the small feelings we have that sometimes are hard to face..there is an edge to her songs, but also a softness...she is lyrical and conversational at the same time. Her CD was the only one in my machine for a month. Her work inspires me to dig deeper.” EndsSometimesHardFeelingsFacesSongVoiceEmotionInspireMonthsMachinesEdgesDeeperSensualGutsStringsCdsLyricalSoftnessDig DeepLushStrings Attached Author:Kathy Mattea
“I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet, I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She's sort of become my fairy godmother.” LooksHelpingArtistNightSongSweetBrokenMonthsMetsMessagesIndiaMy FavoriteAll TimeFairyAll NightTextingBroken UpText MessageFavorite ArtistGodmotherFairy GodmotherReally Sweet Author:Ariana Grande
“There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.” WritingSongMonthsBrokeBroke Up Author:Fiona Apple
“I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago, I'll bring it back into the playing field. I can tweak ideas or make them better. Just come up with something and then we go from there.” IfsMindI CanIdeasSongCreativeFiveFieldsMonthsSixCome UpSix MonthsPlaying FieldsCreative MindTweak Author:Chris Brown
“There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five times a day for two months on the radio, songs that people will want to dance to on a Saturday night.” PeopleWantWritingTwoPlayNightSongChallengesRecordsFiveMonthsRadioFantasticComposerSaturdaySaturday NightTwo Months Author:Robert Wyatt
“Every single song has its own individual character and you can't treat each song the same way, because it wants to be treated differently and there are songs that are like scared birds that you have to sneak up on over the course of months in the woods.” WayWantCharacterSongCoursesIndividualMonthsBirdTreatsScaredWoodsTreatedSneak Author:Tom Waits
“When I was 13 or 14, I took seven months off from touring. I did a lot of weekend gigs in Louisiana. We have fairs and festivals every weekend. But I took seven months off. That's when I really started digging deep. I wrote a couple songs that year that I still play every now and then for people.” PeopleYearsStillsPlaySongMonthsCoupleFairsSevenWeekendNow And ThenFestivalsTouringGigsDiggingLouisianaSeven MonthsDigging Deep Author:Hunter Hayes
“Its always important to fall back on your instincts and core beliefs and that was pretty hard for me to do but trusting in my self the way I trusted that if I were to sit at a piano for two hours and I was going learn something, that trust I'd put in myself really helped me get through it. For five to six months I just wrote songs and believed they would turn out to be things I could be proud of and be happy.” IfsWayTwoImportantSelfHardSongTurnsFallBeliefHoursFiveMonthsProudSixInstinctCorePianoTrustedBe ProudSix MonthsFall BackCore Beliefs Author:James Vincent McMorrow
“I can write for weeks or months sometimes and edit it down to a song. I feel like it's a piece of music that will hopefully stand the test of time and hopefully capture a moment in history if I'm doing it correctly and honestly.” IfsFeelsWritingI CanSometimesMomentsSongPiecesWeekMonthsTestsHonestlyHopefullyCaptureEditsTest Of Time Author:Macklemore
“I write songs very quickly, so the 20 minutes of joy I get out of writing a song doesn't compare to the two months of joy I get engaging with the people who like my music.” PeopleWritingTwoJoySongMinutesMonthsCompareEngagingTwo Months Author:Halsey