Audience Quote by Ronny Cox

Sometimes I have songs born out of stories.

— Billy Bob Thornton

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

— Hannah Simone

I was lucky enough to write songs that carry a good beat and tell a real story that people could feel was their story,…

— Fats Domino

I think to me, all songs are stories.

— Regina Spektor

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 don't care how good a song is. If it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.

— Dorothy Fields

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 love songs, and I love to tell stories, and so a lot of times, if you really want a good story, you got…

— Andy Grammer

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'm so lucky that I get to write my own music and write my own stories, so every single time I look down in…

— Taylor Swift

So many of my songs are based on things that either happened to me or to someone I know, but there are also ones…

— Shawn Mendes

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