Steven Tyler Quotes

Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever.

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.

That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? “Tell me a story.” That’s how we understand who we are, where we come from. Stories are everything.

The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.

I don't know that movies are important. But I know that stories are important. Movies may disappear. They've only been around, for God's sake, for the last hundred years... I think that it's the need to tell stories, and that people need to be told stories. It's the old sitting around the fire, you know.

We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives.

I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.

I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living.

In my family, telling stories is just a way of life.

If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.

A good story never dies.

Jack’s life had more to do with myth, legend, saga, and story than with political theory or political science.

History: Gossip well told.

Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.

People need stories; they want stories. They always will.

It's important to tell stories, and it's a worthwhile thing to do.

I was brought up telling stories, when I was a kid, in the tiny village where I grew up. Storytelling was a tradition.

My mother was an oral storyteller. She would tell stories over and over again.

Storytelling is essentially what we do.

I appreciate hearing different stories. It inspires me.

I just love rolling up my sleeves and doing research, and I especially love doing research on the origins of folklore and the origins of mythology.

I think, culturally, stories are important, whether it be cinema, whether it be by word of mouth - which I don't even know if we do anymore, as it all seems to be social media.

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

We are surrounded by story.

The human race has always defined itself through narration. That isn't going to change just because we've gone electronic. What is changing is that now we're allowing corporations to tell our stories for us.