I like back-stories to music.

“I have no way of knowing whether you, who eventually will read this record, like stories or not. If you do not, no doubt…

— Gene Wolfe

I always like stories where the egg ends up on my face.

— Rob Lowe

It makes you feel like a warm hug when you listen to the stories in the music. It's why I fell in love with…

— Lainey Wilson

It's not like I'm narrating stories with music behind them. It's all kind of one thing. You hope you can provoke a specific emotional…

— Jonathan Meiburg

I like the purity of telling stories now because not a lot of people are telling stories in their music. I wanna tell my…

— Rotimi

I really said, 'Okay, this is just the right job for me. This is really what I need to be doing: telling stories through…

— Christopher Lennertz

When I was very little my mother would read to me in bed. She gave me a fascination for stories, and for the music…

— Michael Morpurgo

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

— Pearl Bailey

Both are about telling stories and bringing truth to those stories. In most of my music it's firsthand experience, and some of the same…

— Kano

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.

— Sam Palladio

Remy Ma is from the Bronx and I'm from the Bronx. The stories in her music are similar to what I've experienced.

— Erica Mena

I'm not sure I ever try to make a case for the music. I mean, sometimes the music isn't even that good. I just…

— Michael Azerrad

My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music.

— Taylor Swift

I love playing live and meeting a lot of the people and hearing their stories and how the music touches their lives.

— Susan Tedeschi

I play an instrument that has four strings, and I'm still trying to get it right. What I've tried to do in the process…

— Yo-Yo Ma