Alison Goldfrapp Quotes

I'll take a certain concern of my own or a situation and try to frame it around a fictional story, but sometimes just straight-up autobiographical songs work well, and sometimes a story is better. I like stories. I like to hear them. I don't think there are enough of them in songs anymore.

I hear music as narrative.

For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it.

In my own life I studied music, not creative writing; I see a novel as music - an opening as an overture, themes and subplots as lines in a fugue. The chance to write a novel about a musician boxed in by all kinds of limitations but who plays out his ultimate struggle for freedom at the piano was irresistible.

My music is written with one goal in mind: to improvise. It's like explaining a great story in words, but without words, much faster than you could with words. It's like a direct line of instantaneous communication where you don't have to wait for the end.

Every kid has a story to tell!

Music is an emotion, and I put it out there.

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

When I was a kid, I was always going to bed creating a story, and that was the birth of filmmaking for me. I would like going to the dream-state by telling the story to someone else in my mind. That was my imaginary friend; it was an imaginary audience listening to my story.

All of the musicians when I was young used to always say you had to tell a story when you're a musician.

I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

I always have music playing in my studio when I design. It really gets me in the mood and allows me to focus.

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

I want to work with anyone who's passionate about telling a story. I obviously have a list of people I really love, but it's a really long list.

And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. There's so much improvisation you can do with cuttin' and scratchin' that's reminiscent of jazz music, because it's all about how you feel. You're capturing a vibe and just going with it.

For each book, I do end up making a kind of playlist to fit the characters.

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.

Where film is infinitely superior to any other medium is emotion and story and character.

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.

Music is extremely important to have on photo shoots - it brings the mood.

You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling. The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see?

Each song, you're telling a story and acting.