Quotes About Meaning

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a totally abstract thing.

A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.

My God! What has sound got to do with music?

Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in movies I was wondering if it could. And how.

Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything.

I have a really hard time connecting to music that doesn't feel like I'm somehow solving a puzzle that applies to my life.

If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.

All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.

Songs are more powerful than books.

I associate times with certain music. It still is that for me. It's telling the story of our lives.

Music has always been a part of my spiritual seeking, from the moment that Handel's 'Messiah' gave me the experience when I was so young, and music has meant so much to me since then.

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

I get really affected by songs as a music listener - they mean so much and they feel so significant.

I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.

Music is one big thing to me.

Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.

Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with unsuitable means.