Communication Quote by Zoya Akhtar

We're not writing songs to solve a cultural problem. The goal for us is to express what we're going through, and it's great if…

— Ben Hopkins

Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.

— Charles Hazlewood

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

If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time…

— Stephen Sondheim

People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through…

— Brandi Carlile

We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing a character.

— Marc E. Platt

Music is a dialogue.

— Alex Van Halen

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

— Norbert Leo Butz

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it…

— Al Stewart

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if…

— Mike Figgis

I hear music as narrative.

— Ajay Naidu

When you listen to the music, you see little movies in your head, and that's the beauty of it, I think. People can make…

— Sune Rose Wagner