City Quote by Julia Holter

I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?

— Lucinda Williams

Some of the songs are inspired by personal things that have happened. Others have been inspired by other people's stories, you know, like someone…

— Katie Melua

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

— Grant-Lee Phillips

“If there is one thing I can say without a doubt, it is that tragedy can make great music. Every single song I have…

— Muse en Lystrala

In southern and central Africa, tragedy roared at us, and we roared back. We shared dramas publicly, bled them on the corridors of hospitals,…

— Alexandra Fuller

A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But…

— Amy Poehler

I think to me, all songs are stories.

— Regina Spektor

Sometimes what we call tragedy, at least in the theater, are really case histories. They're based on the central figure, and things happen to…

— Derek Walcott

Because they're my stories, they're my version of events of the past three years. But I really hope people can hear their own stories…

— Emeli Sande

Tragedy is formed 'round ideas it does not expound, and to understand its history is, in some part, to understand those ideas and their…

— Bernard Williams

My music has been inspired by true events in my life.

— Omarion

I'm very inspired by past music.

— Adam Lambert