Quotes About Meaning

Baseball is just a game, obviously, but it means a lot to a lot of different people.

The songs always tell you something, but always for different reasons.

Knowing about authors' beliefs helps you understand how those beliefs influence their writing, and things you thought meant one thing, once you've got enough information about that writer, you suddenly realize mean an entirely different thing. That makes a difference.

I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.

I've always loved the word blunderbuss. I've always thought that it was a beautiful word and that it could mean several different things.

I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.

It's hard to say what an album is about - because each one is usually about a lot of things to me, but then I hope it also can mean a lot of different things to someone else. That's the beautiful thing about music.

I realize that I cannot live without a spiritual dimension in my life.

If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.

Music for me has always been something that is directly connected to my heart.

I think my music is a way of communicating very directly with people and with people's emotions. I try to make music that doesn't need layers of complexity or obfuscation to speak to people.

Americans disagree about America because the most common consensus as to what America is or has ever been or ever was meant to be eludes us, and it eludes us because we want it to.

Plays are about understanding what happens, what it means. If we just leaned into the story, for lack of a better word, it would still be a powerful story but, like delight, it might disappear an hour after you saw it.

And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow.

The very best design, I feel, is that which resonates so deeply that people can't help but discover something within themselves when they see it.

People who have discovered a purpose feel better, like themselves more, age more subtly, and live longer.

Ethics are pre-determined and a matter of discovery, not a evolved concept.

Was 'Crucify Your Mind' dedicated to anybody? No, it was a generalization. 'A Most Disgusting Song' is like that, too.

Everything I do is about Chinese culture. My dishes have to symbolize something because they taste better when people understand.

I don't really understand what 'Galacticos' is supposed to mean. It's a term I dislike. I like football, pure and simple, and that concept isn't part of football. It's something else entirely.

The world in general has meaning, deep meaning at times. This cannot be dismissed as a delusion, an artifact of chemicals.

Disney is a place that I've always rooted for, and I think the audience does also because we have a deep, deep love for what that means.

'Deracine' is French for uprooting, or someone who's been displaced from their natural environment.

I think when you congratulate yourselves for diversity, that means nothing's really changed.