John Branch Quotes

Every person I see has a story to tell.

Everybody has their story to tell.

Everybody is an expert on one thing - that's what I learned in my high school journalism class - and that's, of course, his own life. And everybody deserves to live and have his story told. And if it doesn't seem like an interesting story, then that's the failure of the listener, or the journalist who retells it badly.

Every person you meet has a story.

I just love to share my story with people as much as I can.

I don't believe people are interested in dates and facts. I don't think it is interesting to say what it is to be this person or that, but I do believe it is entertaining and perhaps even of value to express how it is to be that person.

I'm writing my story so that others might see fragments of themselves.

We have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know ourselves.

Well, anything can happen and it happened to me. I learned everybody has a story.

I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.

Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

The thing about storytelling is it's very stripped down; it's very much at the core of 'I'm a person and I'm just telling you this thing, and I need you to trust me and believe that what I'm saying is true, and if you believe that what I'm saying is true then we are connected to each other.' I think there's something really beautiful about that.

I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.

Everybody's got stories. I don't want to not have stories.

I'd say most of my songs I write from personal experience. When I feel like I don't have any inspiration in my personal life, I think about others that are close to me and maybe what they're going through or even just people I've come across, acquaintances.

With this book, I truly hope to reach everyone that I don't bump into on the street and share my story.

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.

When you label somebody and put them in a box, then you put the lid on the box, and you just never look inside again. I think it's much more interesting for human beings to look at each other's stories and see each other. Really see each other and then see themselves through other people's stories. That's where you start to break down stereotypes.

I love that idea that if you know someone's story, it's impossible not to love them. This is potentially hokey but incredibly true, as far as I'm concerned.

I love talking to people, hearing people's stories; I love honest things.

Never underestimate the power of anyone's story... anyone's life.

My writing is a product of how I would interact with things that have happened to me or things that have not happened to me but have happened to somebody else.