Music Duration Quotes

Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange that song so it doesn't get repetitious.

I love '90s and '00s R&B, and those songs go on for ever.

If a piece of music is under three minutes long, it's rock. Over three minutes, it's classical.

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

It was loud in spots and less loud in other spots, and it had that quality which I have noticed in all violin solos of seeming to last much longer than it actually did.

Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.

Songs being nine to 10 minutes long? Everyone is scared to to do it.

One thing I always loved about vinyl was the length of a side, around 20 or 22 minutes. That's the perfect length of an attention span for listening time, you know? You could listen and give it all your attention. Put on something that's 70 minutes, and nobody's sticking around past the first 20 or 30 minutes.

It does make sense to put on some songs that are relatively short, because radio usually only plays songs that are less than 4 or 5 minutes.

The trouble with records is that they're too short.

One single raga can be performed for two hours, three hours.

People's attentions spans are getting shorter and shorter. I don't want to cater to that necessarily but, just for myself, it feels like more than 40 minutes of music is too much.

We'd hold a chord for three hours if we could.

I don't have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.

'Hound Dog' is a really short record, and most singles didn't last three minutes.