Melanie Martinez Quotes

I think that the next album is specifically for sure from Cry Baby's perspective, but it's not necessarily about her family-life or her love-life, or anything like that, it's more about this place in this town. The place has different characters in there, so in every song there's gonna be different characters that appear.

I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.

Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some kind of feeling. I really take pride in that.

What I'm trying to do is tell good stories through music. I think some of the best songs, the best country songs, are stories.

'Love Letter' is a concept album, and whenever I do a concept album - and I love doing concept albums more than any other kind of album - it allows me to get dressed, in a way, musically.

In my opinion, an album has a story from start to finish and has a concrete concept.

When you're putting together a concept album, it's all about the flow and the story.

Cry Baby is a character so I think that the next album is going to be about a specific thing in her life or another place in her world. It's going to be a bit deeper into a bigger picture.

We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing a character.

Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been listening to - all the pieces of music you’ve ever heard.

I think Americana music is music that is generally more singer/songwriter oriented. It has more to do with the songwriting. The music, it's more like stories set to music.

One of the things I loved about the musical was that you listened to the soundtrack and it told you the story.

I've got stories on every one of my albums, big ones.

One thing that I've often done under the Projectors is build an album from a central conceit.

I've waited for the day my debut album is released my entire life, so naturally I've designed it to be listened to from start to finish - so every song flows into each other in a way that tells a sonic story.

My first album, 'Englaborn,' was based on music originally written for the theatre. My solo albums, like 'IBM 1401, a User's Manual' and 'Fordlandia,' have also had narratives attached to them.

When I'm done with my last album, I want to make a movie with Tim Burton telling the story of all of the albums connected. That's my biggest dream.

What is so beautiful about a composer and a lyricist is that their job is to push a story along and not halt it.

Irish music in the local pubs was my first exposure to musical expression, and I feel like Irish music is very close to musical theater because it is always telling a story.

I always like to think of music as if you were to turn the picture off, actually. Just by listening to the piece of music, there's a story there and a connection to the characters and the plots and all of that.

But you know, I really like to present the songs on an album as a story, as something thematic, rather than something you'd put on a random shuffle.

The whole point of music is being able to share your story.

I tell stories to music and, thank God, in tune.

Personal stories are the emotional glue that connects your audience to your message.

I like to think about what the song is saying, the story of it, and conveying the mood of that to the audience. But at the same time, sharing through interacting with them and engaging them.