Contemporary Quote by Norbert Leo Butz

I love it when people write rapturously about music they love.

— Ezra Furman

I like the idea of letting the music do its own work and the stories being more expressionful - if that's a word -…

— Johnny Flynn

When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.

— Hannah Simone

It is a part of us, film-makers and audiences; what we can't say with dialogues, we say with a song. We tell stories through…

— Zoya Akhtar

I hear music as narrative.

— Ajay Naidu

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

— Chamillionaire

I started out writing music for theatre and contemporary dance, so there has always been a dramatic and narrative element in my music.

— Johann Johannsson

When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or social stuff, that in general people…

— Catie Curtis

I love telling a story through song. It helps me take it to a deeper place.

— Josh Segarra

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

I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.

— Rachel Bloom