Music Quote by Nanci Griffith

I grew up listening to topical music - songs that were about things. So when I write songs, a lot of the time, they're…

— Santigold

For me, growing-up music was always about telling stories.

— Michael Giacchino

My music always been based off telling stories and now I really got a lot of stories to tell about my life, what my…

— Boosie

I love story songs because I've always loved books.

— Dolly Parton

First I think I was interested in the stories, and later on, I became more interested in the language itself, so the stories became…

— Tom Robbins

I've always been interested in listening to people's stories.

— Jens Lekman

Ever since I started writing music, I've wanted to know what the songs are about and to be able to tell stories.

— Jens Lekman

I've found for the last couple of years that the things that I can become most deeply involved with are songs that reflect my…

— Neil Diamond

I think to me, all songs are stories.

— Regina Spektor

I started writing songs as character explorations.

— Noah Reid

I'll take a certain concern of my own or a situation and try to frame it around a fictional story, but sometimes just straight-up…

— Jason Isbell

I was really intrigued by how - sort of the common themes and sort of the blend among music, and that was sort of…

— Jill Stein