Books Quote by Jesse Michaels

Writing a song is about inhabiting a specific frame of mind and conjuring a mood, a character, an entire vision.

— The-Dream

It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will…

— Matt Berninger

Some songs depend heavily on the character, but, for the most part, a great song begs for reinterpretation every time it is sung, even…

— Kelli O'Hara

My task is to tell a story with the music. I always like to have themes in terms of characters or plots, and things…

— Ramin Djawadi

The melody is generally what the piece is all about.

— Aaron Copland

For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to…

— Tori Amos

Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose book is…

— Bill Callahan

It feels like every single song is a chapter from a truly important novel.

— Simon Raymonde

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

— David Antin

The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.

— Leonard Michaels

If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time…

— Stephen Sondheim

In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called the work…

— Jeff Britting