Accept Quote by Nick Clegg

I think that if you have a strong narrative, if the idea of the song can be boiled down to the basics, it won't…

— Suzanne Vega

I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.

— Nick Cave

I like to think about what the song is saying, the story of it, and conveying the mood of that to the audience. But…

— Bridgit Mendler

“Third, hear our loss of focus on the gospel in our songs. This is no comment on musical styles and tastes, but simply an…

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels,…

— Alex Chilton

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

— Norbert Leo Butz

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

— Leonard Michaels

When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped…

— Yannick Noah

My songs are all about celebrating poignant music. While some of them focus on fun and revelry, they are fortunately backed by powerful lyrics.…

— Kailash Kher

As a songwriter, it's good to have criticism, and I like objective opinions.

— John Gourley

Song is the heroics of speech.

— Thomas Carlyle

I think it's really hard to make songs that pursue an agenda. You can kind of do it a little bit through a character,…

— David Byrne