Quotes About Music Telling A Story

#1. Don't see the notes. See the music. See the story it is telling you. Allow the music to change you. Allow it to give you the courage to do whatever you need to

Karen White

#2. That was the heart of the problem: every choice made sense from some vantage point.

Jacob M. Appel

#3. I'm a substitute mom."
"You're more like a crazy aunt who only gets called when somebody needs bailing out of jail.

Ilona Andrews

#4. The music takes on all different jobs and hopefully is part of telling the story. Each song has to be a story unto itself. It's a very different set of muscles.

Frank Wildhorn

#5. Suddenly I was cocooned in silent,blissful darkness,with only the whisper of distant waves to remind me where I was.

Ransom Riggs

#6. My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through conviction about what I love and what I care about, starting with the very small.

Sufjan Stevens

#7. I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the 'honesty' of the story.

Chris Ware

#8. The Evil Queen who had no heart now has a heart that's broken.

E.L. Sarnoff

#9. They tell me there are many gods, for god is in each of us

Brian L. Weiss

#10. Put the Team Before Yourself.

Pat Summitt

#11. In this age of 24-7 headlines, the term 'newsweekly' seems almost quaint.

Graydon Carter

#12. From now on we shall bomb Germany on an ever-increasing scale, month by month, year by year, until the Nazi regime has either been exterminated by us or - better still - torn to pieces by the German people themselves.

Winston Churchill

#13. I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.

Tamsin Greig

#14. Catholicism has made man stupid, but it has not degraded him; it has introduced as many good and beautiful things as bad things. The United States have simply degraded humanity. Catholicism has done less harm in two thousand years than the United States in two hundred.

Henry De Montherlant

#15. Triumph belongs to thought. Change your thinking and you change your life! You become new!

J.P. Vaswani

#16. We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.

Joseph Conrad

#17. I have to say in premise 'Winter Journal' is really not a memoir. And I don't even think of it as an autobiography. I think of it as a literary composition - similar to music - composed of autobiographical fragments. I'm really not telling the story of my life in a coherent narrative form.

Paul Auster

#18. Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them
that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

L.M. Montgomery

#19. I have kind of an intuitive feeling as a composer as to what would be appropriate for those groups and how to feature certain paths in a certain way, whether there was dialogue in a scene, or whether there was no dialogue and music was telling the story at that point.

Howard Shore

#20. if anybody feels unworthy to enter heaven,
well then at least let heaven enter his soul.

Toba Beta

#21. For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it.

Graeme Murphy

#22. My partner, Danny Strong, came to me with this idea of telling a story about my life and merging that with music and the hip-hop world. He wrote 'The Butler' and originally wanted to do 'Empire' also as a movie.

Lee Daniels

#23. When I was a kid I got no respect. When I went on the roller coaster, my old man told me to stand up straight.

Rodney Dangerfield

#24. 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

#25. I associate times with certain music. It still is that for me. It's telling the story of our lives.

James Hetfield

#26. For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.

Taylor Swift

#27. There is always a reason to be grateful.

Deepak Chopra