Quotes About Meaning

If your work doesn't speak to people, it's beyond comprehension and risible, but if people engage with it, you become tarred with the brush of populism.

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

Since 'concepts' are closely bound up with language, concept art is a kind of art of which the material is language.

Left, right, populism... all are meaningless concepts.

Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.

The UFC focuses on entertainment, but that's not what fighting is about. It is not a concert.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.

The only philosophy that I'm not confused about in life is love.

There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music.

I connect emotionally to these songs. I mean what I say when I say it, and that allows your audience to connect. That's the number-one reason why any music is successful, because you make people feel something.

Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that thought-out. I feel like the way I write is pretty simple, in some ways, because I'm trying to connect. I want a lot of people to hear it, and be moved in some way.

I just want to connect with you bros. That's all I care about, because you bros' support really means everything to me.

If I want people to connect to my words and my stories, I need to tell them where they came from. Because then, when you break into song, they have kind of a blueprint for why I wrote that song, so they can come to it with something they went through that helps them connect to it.

As long as you tell the best story possible, you can trust that people will be able to connect to it.

As an artist, I don't care about where we are in the charts and all that. The important thing to me is to connect with a creative project.

It's hard for me... If I don't have a project going, I don't feel like I'm connected to anything. I don't even think it's that healthy for me. I like to get out of bed and have a purpose.

Everything's connected, and everything has meaning if you look for it.

For me, writing stories is one way of feeling connected to the universe and God.

Sometimes you make a connection with a writer or a piece of material, and there's not much to ask.

I was drawn to biology and history and, of course, art. And I loved languages. The biggest problem I had is that I wasn't taught about the connections between all these things. I think that would have given life a lot more meaning and it would be a lot more enjoyable.

Music, to me, is something that connects to the soul.

Some of the words that pop up on the show have had terrible connotations. But that's the beauty of 'Countdown.'

I don't think I'll ever do a show with violence where there's no consequences, 'cause I know the consequences.