When I was very little my mother would read to me in bed…

My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a…

— Ben van Berkel

With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was a busy…

— Michael Morpurgo

“But then, I knew so little about my mother over the last decade of her life. I had been too wrapped up in my…

— Mitch Albom

I denied this for many, many years and years... but you cannot help but not see a little of my mother in the character…

— Barry Humphries

“It's really a very simple arrangement, little mother. He fully understands that either they get healthy, or he gets sick. That sort of encourages…

— David Eddings

“And yet," said Anne, very softly, "you wouldn't want it to stop hurting . . . you wouldn't want to forget your little mother…

— Anonymous

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

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

I like back-stories to music.

— Goldlink

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