Quotes About Meaning

We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something.

My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'

We singers have a different level of responsibility from other musicians. We have words that we must convey; we have meanings that we must convey through these lyrics.

When an analogy is really singing, it's what you want it to be.

I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with.

I really didn't like the songs that were being offered to me. There was no melody and no meaning to them. That's why I have not been singing in Bollywood for a while.

I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.

You didn't hear the angels singing. It was brought down to Mother Earth, which is where it should be. And that led me to a lot of other reading.

Modernity is a deal. The entire contract can be summarised in a single phrase: humans agree to give up meaning in exchange for power.

In the public realm, secularism should not concede a single inch to religious intrusions. To argue otherwise is to violate the meaning of secularism.

I am just so grateful for every single day, and if I could just not think past today, I would be living the life that I think God meant me to live.

I don't believe really good plays - interesting plays, complicated plays - can mean just one thing to every single person in the audience.

Game development combines all this disparate art stuff I'd been doing into one single thing that I could use to say very specific stuff.

What I look for in a voice is for it to be unique. I don't really care if a singer sings well. Really, it's about emotion, or being able to sing the lyrics and actually mean it. A lot of singers sing good notes but forget about what words they use.

I think that there's a singular emotion that goes along with what the bands that we love mean to us. I feel like people feel represented by that in a way that you don't get from saying, 'Oh, I like this book' or 'I went to college here' or 'This is what my job is.'

Collage is not a kitchen sink; it's not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.

I remember, growing up, losing a sister, and - life is short. Make the most of your opportunities.

I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.

Situations we might write off as a coincidence could actually be a late loved one trying to send us a sign.

I want to make it clear: it's not that I hate mainstream cinema. It's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people who need to escape, because they are in very difficult situations, so they have the right to escape from the world. But this has nothing to do with an art form.

I like making music which connects to me and the real situations in life.

Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.

It's not a question of size, of whether it's a small or a big thing, but of what it has the power to incarnate.

Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.