Always Quote by Nick Cave

I don't like those songs where you have to listen to a story to get into them. I don't want to have to pay…

— Nick Cave

I love story songs. It's just, for me, they're harder to write, and sometimes they sound too intended or something.

— Conor Oberst

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 really like narrative songs, but I wonder if that's a thing for some people. Once they've heard the story, do they really need…

— Craig Finn

I think to me, all songs are stories.

— Regina Spektor

I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about songwriting is…

— Stephen Sondheim

The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing I can…

— Stephen Malkmus

Sometimes I have songs born out of stories.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I will say this: I've always sort of had maybe an inflated sense of my ability to sequence songs in a narrative flow.

— Rodney Crowell

It's different obviously with a song when you're talking about narrative, you're talking about the verse leading into the chorus or whatever it is,…

— Shura

I feel like people, when it comes to music, whatever genre, they relate to the story more than just the song.

— Chamillionaire

I love it when people take contemporary songs and find a narrative or a theatrical way of telling it.

— Norbert Leo Butz