Quotes About Meaning

The contents of an ideology are not sacrosanct simply because they are couched in the cloak of a religion.

It's not fit work for an adult just dragging idols off the shelf. It's too easy.

If I could pick one reason why I want to be a writer, it would be connection. In all kinds of ways, I like to be individual and distinct; but when I write, I want to be writing about things that connect me to the people for whom I write.

Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?

Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.

Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.

Any great art is meant to illuminate the human condition.

Sometimes art helps illuminate science.

All the great artists illustrate their approach to life in the work they make.

We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself.

In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.

I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining. One, I rarely have anything to say. It's much more interesting for me to discover some meaning that you didn't know that you could create.

I'm fascinated with what an audience will take away from an image.

Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

I'm drawn to dramas that make people think. I want to make an impact.

You can win a championship, but the amount of fulfillment that I get knowing I've impacted a whole community is bigger than a championship for me. It's what I stand for. It's how I live. And I think that's how the world should try to see itself to impact other people's lives.

We want to just make music that impacts people - we don't really care about the rest.

You can impact on people with music, and I love that because music impacts on me.

Not every show is meant to impart education and has to be entertainment driven as well.

When you write for kids, people always ask you what lesson you mean to impart. I don't think adult writers get that question. I never mean to teach anybody a lesson, because I don't know anything myself.

I like it when people have good flow, but I also like it when people actually say stuff. Because sometimes that's a very good distraction, like, to have impeccable flow, but you're saying a lot without saying anything.

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

In college, I would follow Bob Dylan around, and I would show up to a concert, and he would sing some song he hadn't sang in a long time, and it would speak to something, and I would think it had some great fateful implication.