People Quote by Taylor Goldsmith

If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that…

— Nate Ruess

Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.

— Paul McCartney

It's funny: I look at songs, and I guess they each tell a story, and the different songs talk about different things. But they're…

— Dianne Reeves

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 just don't see myself as a songwriter or a country singer or any of those things anymore. It's more trying to express ideas…

— Sturgill Simpson

If there is one thing I think I have accomplished, it's that I always thought of myself as a very literal songwriter, and as…

— Ben Gibbard

To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to record it…

— Amy Grant

It's writing songs within the structure of telling a story, so it becomes a platform for diverse songwriting, for a writing process that's broader…

— Alan Menken

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

— Norbert Leo Butz

I think the narratives on 'Trans,' 'Plans,' and 'Narrow Stairs' moved away from the way I wrote on the first couple of records, which…

— Ben Gibbard

I think that I have come at it backwards in a way because a lot of what I'm doing as a songwriter is not…

— Mirah

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