“That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.” WritingMightHappensSongTwentiesSticksThirtyFortySignificanceChurning Author:Mick Ralphs
“I learned by transcribing songs out of the Library of Congress collection in Washington where I was working. I got a job when I just turned twenty in 1939 and Alan [Lomax] needed some help. I listened to hundreds of records every week.” HelpingJobsSongRecordsWeekNeededTwentiesLibraryCongressCollectionsTranscribing Author:Pete Seeger
“Sometimes words come easily and sometimes they don't. Most songs take me twenty minutes to write.” WritingSometimesSongMinutesTwentiesTake Me Author:Jillian Hervey