Miles Davis Quotes

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences.

Storytelling is the important thing.

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds.

It's good to pass on stories.

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.

A good story never dies.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.

Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful

There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth, it’s just a story. Stories are all we’re ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles

Few of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced friend who has helped us by precious counsel, never to be forgotten. We cannot render it in kind, but perhaps in the fulness of time it may become our noblest duty to aid another as we have ourselves been aided, and to transmit to him an invaluable treasure, the tradition of the intellectual life.

Stories live forever. Storytellers don't.

Stories build cultures by answering the big questions.

The film argues to the young that the old were young once, too, and contain within them all that the young know, and more.

One of the greatest gifts we can give to another generation is our experience, our wisdom.

A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.

Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.

The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind, secretly lives on in the story. The first true storyteller is, and will continue to be, the teller of fairy tales. Whenever good counsel was at a premium, the fairy tale had it, and where the need was greatest, its aid was nearest. This need was created by myth. The fairy tale tells us of the earliest arrangements that mankind made to shake off the nightmare which myth had placed upon its chest.

Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.

That's all that really matters in the end. Stories.