Early Quote by Passenger

I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would…

— Irvine Welsh

In the old days, people would gather around the fire, or they would gather at a tavern, and they'd tell a story. And then,…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Folk music is where I come from originally. The very first thing that introduced me to playing guitars at all was skiffle - my…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

I was brought up telling stories, when I was a kid, in the tiny village where I grew up. Storytelling was a tradition.

— Peter Stormare

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

It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians

— Dan Fogelberg

I picked up the guitar very late, in a very pagan way - I didn't know how to play, but I knew I had…

— Lou Doillon

All of the musicians when I was young used to always say you had to tell a story when you're a musician.

— Dave Holland

Folk tales, which are usually written for children, become a bigger lesson for adults.

— Shweta Basu Prasad

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from…

— Anonymous

My entire style of playing was built around somebody else playing guitar with me, a story that, on its own, sounds unfinished.

— Carrie Brownstein

We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do.

— Arthur Kleinman