Quotes About Meaning

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.

When I write the songs, I don't dictate how people should interpret them.

I try to avoid describing one interpretation of my books. Of course I have an opinion. I have things I want to say, but I don't ever want to limit anybody, to have them say, 'Oh, he said this, so that's what it's about.' I'm happy people bring their own stuff to it.

The value of having numbers - data - is that they aren't subject to someone else's interpretation. They are just the numbers. You can decide what they mean for you.

I am not a propagandist; my work has often had a political dimension but, hopefully, one that is not didactic and is open to interpretation.

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.

I think other people's interpretations of what I've written are a lot better than what I have, because I don't understand a lot of what I write.

God's revelation has always been in deeds. God's interventions in history have always been in deeds, in actions. Then there are those who interpret the actions, and then there are those who write down the interpretations of the actions.

A writer can write an essay, but the writer can never control how that essay is interpreted by the reader.

What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.

Whether I'm in the Hall of Fame or not, I can say whatever I like; it just depends on how it's interpreted!

I think no one knows what humanitarian intervention means. If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.

I'm always amazed at how books find us at the time we need them, as if there's some omniscient, benevolent librarian in the sky.

So much of life, it seems to me, is the framing and naming of things.

Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting it's something far, far deeper than that.

As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other men—so the world of Reality exists for all; and all may participate in it, unite with it, according to their measure and to the strength and purity of their desire.

Life, more life, a larger, richer, more satisfying life, is in the last analysis the end of religion,

After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.

After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.

I was with a friend of mine recently who was dying and while he was lying there with his family around his bed, I just knew that was it, that was the best you can hope for in life - to have your family and the people who love you around you at the end.

Ele tinha-nos sugerido que fôssemos todos a uma sauna e eu pensei que devia ser o que os ucranianos costumavam fazer depois do trabalho, mas vieram-me à cabeça outros pensamentos. Se se tratasse apenas de uma sauna, não teria quaisquer problemas. Mas podia significar tanta coisa mais e eu não queria dar por mim numa situação dessas. Nem pensar.

you can't spell assassin without sin and twice the ass.

A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.