Quotes About Interpretation

Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.

THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.

I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

See the music, hear the dance.

There is nothing more difficult than talking about music.

A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.

My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly

If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.

In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.