Musical Story Quotes

I would love to document the Roots; I think they have an interesting story. I have a curiosity about them. Their musicality and their live performances I think would be great, and I have a feeling that there are stories behind each one of them.

Mary Poppins is magical and fun.

No albums are better or worse than each other, and they're all important to our legacy and our story.

What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?

I try to tell a story musically in a song.

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 it's got to be a song.

Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.

I hear music as narrative.

I really believe in albums, even though some people believe the year of the album has passed. I love singular pop songs or tracks, but what really affects me most deeply is if there's an hour of music or 45 minutes of music that flows really well and tells a story.