Quotes About Meaning

I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.

I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words.

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

If all you have is music, then you don't have music

The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.

Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.

Music is the soul of language.

The most important things cannot be spoken; that's why there's music.

I write music, it's performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn't need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Music is interior decoration.

All music is worship. It just depends on what you're worshipping.

Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.

If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves — and often beautiful.

Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

It's multifaceted, the message to our music. It's not just that. It's about individuality, development of self, finding things in life that you can be passionate about.

It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

Music that paints nothing is only noise.

Without a song, each day would be a century.