Quotes About Meaning

I like working in any medium. Who's making it? How much do I like the story? Does it contribute something?

Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.

It's not always about huge giant commercial success. It's about art.

Music is hugely important to me.

Without hugs seeing a face on a screen carries a weight of meaning and emotion.

Every human being is searching for a deep sense of meaning, and yet we're all chasing success. We've confused one for the other.

If I'm not a successful human being, who I am?

I always concentrate on respecting human beings and their lives and the meaning within their lives, and I believe that is something people around the world can appreciate.

I think it's a part of us as human beings that we search outside of ourselves for meaning.

For anyone with half a brain they can see that this play is about the human condition.

I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.

How do we describe the fact of human existence? At a certain point, perhaps, style fails us. Language, even and in particular at its most evocative, becomes less of an aid and more of a difficulty.

Every literary culture has among its first bearings the 'blether' of animals who seek to make sense of human existence.

The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not want to worry too much about semantics.

Human rights only have meaning if they are universal.

I think I'm more of an absurdist than a satirist. I think I'm more of a - humanist? I hate to say it!

There are many things I do where the centre of it is... It's almost more my humanitarian work than art.

Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.

All these experiments I've done over the years with technology have been asking whether I can tell stories that affect humans in a deeper way than I could without the technology.

When you have these moments where a song connects with people and creates a conversation, it's quite a humbling experience because it's like, 'Maybe there is a little bit more weight to this job than I thought there ever was before.' Which was wonderful that that happened with 'Dead Boys.'

I think the main thing about comedy and humor is that it's impossible and always was impossible to define.

A long time ago, you couldn't say what you mean in blues. You had to disguise it, and that's where the double entendres and humour comes from and that's where we come from.

When we talk about Something More, it isn't wanting a fancier car, a bigger house, or a designer dress. Something More is what we need to fill our spiritual hunger.

Better than a thousand meaningless statements Is one meaningful word, Which, having been heard, Brings peace.