Quotes About Meaning

A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing.

I think the whole reason for my life is in there somewhere.

I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.

Sometimes a scene may be about one thing, and it may end up still being about that, but the emotionality of it comes from somewhere else, or the humor of it comes from somewhere else, and it gives it that real-life quality.

This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.

I always think about life, and I think that we are here with a mission, and once we have done our mission, we go somewhere else.

My oldest son's name is Oliver and my second son's name is Walter.

I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.

My son is old enough to respond to my work. To me, that's what it is all about.

Hugh Lynn Cayce, Edgar Cayce's son, is quoted as saying, The best interpretation of a dream is one you apply.

In the big picture, it doesn't really matter if we never made a record, or we never sang a song. That isn't important.

What song have you played 10,000 times? It's probably not something basic. It's probably a song that validates your experience on Earth.

A close-up on screen can say all a song can.

With 'Philharmonics,' I had to do a lot of interviews, and it was like I was corrupting something. In many ways, I've said everything in the song. And either I can't go back to what it was because it's changing when I play it, or I still haven't figured out what the song is about.

I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.

It's so interesting how you can take a bad situation and make a great song out of it that somebody else can listen to and have a completely different perspective of the song and have their own meaning. That's what's great about it.

If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.

When you don't know how to pronounce words, when you don't know the meaning of the words, how will you imbibe a song with feeling?

My favorite song will always be 'Layla' by Derek and the Dominos, because my granddaughter was named after it.

I feel like listening to sad songs are a way of narrating your life and confirming your identity.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different.