Beyond The Story Quotes

“This song is basically saying, "Give us all the suffering, we'll withstand it all!”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“The results are important, sure, but the process is also very important, and I try to maintain my own balance through direct experience.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“I wanted to fill it with the hurt I felt. It's a very lively song, but the lyrics are really sad.

Yesterday's you
Now I see it all
So many thorns on a sprouting rose
I want to give you a hug”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“Two completely difference people accepting each other's differences and becoming friends might come across as a cliche in a movie or a drama.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“I couldn't understand him at first. Sure, I was a little too young to be very understanding of others, and hadn't met many people then...But I was really curious and kept thinking, 'Why does he work so hard?' Because Jimin really, really gives it his all in every single song. And I came to realize, 'This kid is absolutely serious about being onstage. And he's constantly worried people will be disappointed by his performance.' I'd though long and hard about Jimin this way, and it turned out, Jimin had also thought about me. And once I realized that I had things I was good at while Jimin had his things he was good at...I started to understand. It's just so fascinating to me. That complete opposites can be like, 'Wow, we really don't go together,' but once we saw how we made up for each other's deficiencies, we came to see each other with even more respect and admiration.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“...and people loved me, and I had to meet their expectations...I was dealing with all that chaos in my life with some awkwardness. I didn't know where I had gone wrong, and wondered how I could've done better.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“This makes me think we're on a bridge made of glass that lies across such boundaries. And we can see how far it falls below...So it's also scary. Because just one crack means we're going to fall.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“I think that's how I became conscious of how to think. As I began to have favorite artists, I found new ways of communicating with myself. A work of art is the visual result of an artist who had thought long and hard about things, right? With so much trial and error put into it. Which is why I feel such a catharsis in seeing the results of an artist putting out a piece of art as if they were saying, "This is what I think," after going through all that processing.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“I'd relied so much on him and the members of BTS, which I suppose meant a part of me had always sought his approval. So hearing him say that did put my feelings in order a bit...In any case, I'm surrounded by good people and beloved by our fans, so how could I ever fail?”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“If I'd had to find the answer to every question on my own every time, it would've been a really hard path to follow, but I think I was always influenced by the people around me. Who likes me, whom I get onstage with, who will lead me, who will support me. These are what's really important to me.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“The stages and performances were something we really wanted to do and now we were doing it, but our schedule was just so harsh...Afraid our affection for the work would diminish, that it would become simply "work," we all decided, "Let's take a little time for ourselves.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“Whether you're under pressure or not, what you really need to prepare is your heart. Thinking about this and that will only make you too anxious to do even the things you're good at doing. Let go of the pressure, put behind yourself all that you've done before, and get up on that stage with just one thing, your heart.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“On what he was like as a trainee, V remembered himself less as a person who did his best unconditionally and more as someone who had to "like" something to do it. He needed, therefore, the leisure to recharge and take stock just as much as he needed practice to improve. He referred to this as "the adolescence of the mind," which could be interpreted as the determination to attain personal happiness over material "success."

I tell myself a lot that I will become a better person. But I think I have to become happy myself first or somehow receive a kind of energy in order to take a step closer to becoming that better person. It's the same when I'm inspired. In the beginning of the pandemic, when our entire schedule was canceled and we could rest a bit, I suddenly had this craving to see the ocean at night. So I went with an old school friend to Sokcho in the middle of the night. We lit sparklers, recorded the sound of the ocean, and tried writing songs over the recordings of the night waves. Seeing the ocean at night when I really wanted to see it as opposed to when I really didn't was incredibly different. When my heart is satisfied this way, I take note of the emotions that come to me and write them down.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“For example, when we practiced dance, some of the members would instantly master a move I would need several repetitions to get. I would get dejected. 'Wow, those guys are so talented. We're in the same classes, but how could they be so much better?”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“The desert I've been struggling through without you makes me thirsty
So hold me already
I know that without you the ocean will be just like a desert”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“I don't know. It's not just like it's a single moment...I was just grateful and sorry and thankful and swept up in a thousand emotions.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“Until then, my image of pop stars were just "pop stars." The people I grew up listening to and admiring. It's only right to be fascinated. I had this fantasy that they would be very different from me. But then, I learned they really weren't. On the outside, they ride expensive cars, wear gold chains, and have fancy parties every day. But a lot of it turned out to be just part of the business. It was "work" for them, in other words. And if they couldn't afford the cars or jewelry, they would rent them to show them off. There was, shall we say, a shattering. My fantasies were just shattered.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“Time is passing, I'm still standing here, and people are putting all sorts of labels on me...I couldn't avoid any of that as long as I lived, but maybe there was one last part of me that only I could define. And if that part joined another part that even I nor anyone else could ever define, then my yesterday and today can be created from there.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“Actually I'm real good but a little uncomfortable
I'm still not sure if I'm a dog or a pig or what else
But others come and cast the pearl necklace on me”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“Sometimes I was a little stuck up
Elevated sky, expanded halls
Sometimes I prayed let me run away”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“While it was difficult to ascertain what made them interested in BTS in the first place, there is one clear theme that echoes through this fandom across the world. And that theme is that by being fans of BTS, they found new directions for their lives.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“BTS's popularity cannot be put down to a single factor. One fan might've been attracted by their looks at first, another by their performances, and maybe another would've caught a fun video ARMY had made that made them curious about the band.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“When I read the critiques about painter Song Sangki, there was one part that touched me most. As far as I remember, it said, "I think that the greatest artists are the ones who can take their most personal experiences and distill them into the most universal of truths. Isn't this person art itself?”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“Maybe I made a mistake yesterday, but yesterday's me is still me. Today, I am who I am with all of my faults and my mistakes. Tomorrow, I might be a tiny bit wiser, and that'll be me too. These faults and mistakes are what I am, making up the brightest stars in the constellation of my life. I have come to love myself for who I am, for who I was, and for who I hope to become.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“As it so happens, following on from LOVE YOURSELF, the first line of the MAP OF THE SOUL series' opening song, "Intro: Persona," goes: "Who am I." Of course, like it says in the lyrics, "The question I had my entire life" is "The question I'll probably never find the answer to my whole life." However, it is in the process of answering this question, which comes around in every period of life, that a person learns what it is they have to do.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“You always want to do your best for the one you love, but it's not easy to stand the storm inside your heart, and it feels as if you're wearing a mask in front of them.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“Because I live like that, there isn't anything big I want in my life, and I get a sense of accomplishment by doing the things I want to in the moment I want to do them. I can get a sense of accomplishment in any place. Through that process, I felt a lot of happiness, and found some mental space, I think.”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“You're the sunshine that shone once again on my life
The return of my childhood dream
I don't know what this feeling is
Could this also be a dream?”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“I'll fall again
I'll make mistakes again
I'll be covered with mud again
But have faith in me because I'm a hero
—Anpanman”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

“On days when I hate myself and want to vanish forever
Let's make a door within your heart
Through that door; this place awaits you
It's okay to believe in the magic shop that will comfort you
—Magic Shop”
― BTS, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS