Music Quote by Adam Johnson

Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him…

— Adam Johnson

“Musical myths speak with authority about our society, its fragility, its strengths, its desires, and its limits. Music becomes a wise version of the…

— Edward Rothstein

“Music is a story and you're the author”

— Rachel Van Dyken

“Music and art and philosophy are ultimately based on the premise that this man on his tractor, and these pigs, and the swarms of…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though it may…

— John Blacking

“Life is a big story. Music is just one way to tell it, to realize how many tales all kinds of people share.”

— Stasia Ward Kehoe

“He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that…

— E.M. Forster

“Popular music creates most impact in the telling of stories.”

— Lucy O'Brien

“Story is one of the foundation stones of the human mind along with rhythm and chant. If a collection of facts lacks a narrative…

— Frank Vehafric

“Music is one of the most forceful instruments for governing the mind and spirit of man.”

— William F. Gladstone

“Music does propagate myths and people have tried to make that myth more than it was.”

— Deborah Curtis

It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it…

— Lamar Alexander