Quotes About Story

I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.

This is real, this is your life in a song...this is country music.

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

I feel like people, when it comes to music, whatever genre, they relate to the story more than just the song.

One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.

All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.

The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.

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.

To me, Gospel music is really any music that's a testimony and tells a story of what God has done in your life.

I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know - everything.

I love musicals and music driven films, and my first instinct is to tell the story. And when music is a big part of the action I can literally make the story sing!

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

Every man's story is important, eternal and sacred. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous and worthy of every consideration.

In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

I always wanted to do a story on the blues that not only reflected its nature and its content, but also alludes to the form itself…In short, a story that gives you the impression of the blues.

The story of the tree is written on every leaf.

And if you were a spirit, and time did not bind you, and patience and love were all you knew, then there you would wait for someone to return, and the story to unfold.

Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.

I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart; sometimes it doesn't need to be too many lines - of course, I do love a good story.

Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life story.

The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.