Music Narrative Quotes

Country music tell stories. That's something that I can relate to.

When I started making music I wanted it to have a narrative and be conceptual, but as time went on I thought it was probably more practical for a first album just to have good music.

When I started listening to rap music, I loved the fact that there were stories being told in 16 bars.

The stories in our music form a special viewpoint on the story of America in the 20th Century.

People should listen to my music if they are into a lot of different genres and kind of want to get it all at once, if they want to listen to a story, an interesting story about somebody else.

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

I know as a consumer I want a story. I want a defining - I don't want just an album full of singles. I want to get to know the artist beyond what everyone else can hear on the radio.

I like being a storyteller. I'm bored with myself; I like to write about others. I have a lot of names in my songs: Karen, Margaret, Mary Kay. Even if it's about me, I want to put it through someone else. The music is the soundtrack to the story.

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

Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.

Even when I do commercials, I try to tell a story about the product. With music, I try to tell the story of the person's struggle for success. And I believe every word I say. I never read anything on the air I don't believe in. I think people sense that about me, and they respond to it.

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

So like what I want to do is connect all of my albums and make it tell a bigger kind of story. So the first album is very focused on her family life and her love life.

I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.

The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather than the music.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

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.

The 'victim to victory' theory is that, if you listen to the radio, a large percentage of the hits are... about victim to victory, like, 'I'm having a terrible time.' And then the pre-chorus is, 'I don't know what's gonna happen next.' And the chorus is, 'Now I'm brilliant, and everything is great, because something happened to make it great.'

I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.

I'm lyric conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a 'Dear Abby' column, I do it on records.

I love singing for films because there is a story to the song; it takes you down a new road.

I see rock music as the best example of modernday storytelling that exists in our society. Songs are narratives that help the listeners cope with the reality of life that can't be easily spoken about in everyday conversation. It is a hugely powerful process of helping people find themselves through music.

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.

I've never been passionate about just music, I've never seen myself going into music in that sense. My love for music has always been connected to the stories told through music, which is why I was drawn to theater and why I think 'Glee' is so powerful.

For 'Drive,' we needed the songs to dictate emotions and really bring you into the mind of The Driver; he's a unique and complicated guy, so the music itself had to be unique and complicated.