Quotes About Stories

His stories are good to hear at night, because we can dream about them asleep; and good in the morning, too, because then we can dream about them awake. (Cowslip)

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

What brings me the most joy is stories about progressive thinking. When a mother or father accepts their child for whoever they are... when goodness prevails... blah blah blah. I'm a cheese ball.

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.

My folks were busy. My dad was a teacher, and it was during the Second World War, and my mother was working. So I got my stories from films and books. I read a lot, and I love to read to this day.

My mother was a washerwoman - or a woman that cleaned houses in Texas... in Plano, Texas - who always loved poetry and always loved stories.

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

Honestly, I don't go out of my way to see animated movies. I'm mostly influenced by.. the films I tend to like are the small films, small personal stories. With characters you can believe.

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues -- communicating with an audience.

I want to write some books. Books that have nothing to do with music, just some fiction type of books for a whole different audience of people.

I think that the audience intuitively understands the idea of sampling and remixing stories. That's why electronic music is global.

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

When I write songs I write for myself...I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an audience that responds to music that is honest and lyrical and tells stories.

The music I play and write is all reflective of myself and the experiences in my life. I feel like my whole journey is just collecting stories and songs along the way.

If you really listen to my music my music is more like stories than party records. I never made party records.

I usually dont like to spoon feed my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

Human nature stays the same, the one thing that stays constant, like death and taxes. And people still want good stories!

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

Somewhere, there, is an analogy, in a small way, if you have the patience for it. But I guess it isn't a very good anecdote. I'm better at animal stories.

We must rebuild organic communities, where people can come together and have analogue conversations and share stories, art, music and emotions.