Quotes About Meaning

Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.

Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.

Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.

Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.

Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind.

Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean it's interesting.

Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music.

There is no art without intention.

Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me.

Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

Wherever the music comes from, if there is no focus behind it then it's just noise

Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.

Although I don't believe in God, Bach's music shows me what a love of God must feel like.

Music without a message is just sound

Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.