Quotes About Interpretation

It's not instant composing; it's not following any kind of a formula. All you do is hear music in your head and reproduce it.

You explore beautiful songs & create your own interpretation of them.

There's something to be said about all music being some translation of our languaging, our way of communicating. It's a language. This is a new language.

Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.

Music is a handshake where I, as a songwriter, am only part of the equation. I love that, the fact that you can make the song your own.

People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can

When I read a script, I am already in the movie with my music, and I can dive into a world that I haven't seen before.

All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs standards now. "Norwegian Wood" is a standard; "Call Me" is a standard.

A little bit if listening with a passable ear will get an awful lot of messages anywhere.

The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.

The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.

I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.

To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.

It's entertaining to watch somebody break my music down or explain what he thinks I was thinking during the process of making these records. Because... he has no idea.

You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor Stravinsky!

I think music is a very personal thing and it doesn't necessarily have to be experienced one way or another, but the album experience is a completely different thing than the single experience.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

Nobody can hear you read music.

We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing a character.

I liked Bach played the way people expect Chopin to be played, and vice versa.

Videos have to go hand in hand with your music, so that's why, ultimately, they should be created by the artist. And if they're not, it doesn't really add up to me.

I'd listened to [Ornette Coleman] all kinds of ways. I listened to him high and I listened to him cold sober. I even played with him. I think he's jiving baby.

Which even though we do have a very visual aesthetic and identity, we love it when people make their own videos to the music.