Quotes About Interpretation

The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases.

Purely on their own, words are inert splashes of ink, sound waves, blips on a screen and the like. Our minds perceive these and make meaning and our minds are part of living in the real world.

There's so many singers, you watch them and a lot of it is waving around. You don't get this feeling that they're really thinking about what they're saying.

The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they're waving their hands in huge gestures.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

What is art but a way of seeing?

Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.

Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I see it may be completely different than the way somebody else sees it. It's interesting to hear what somebody sees in a piece of art compared to somebody else. It could be completely different, and that's interesting to me.

You can say that Wayne Coyne sounds like Neil Young.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

Slow motion goes one of two ways. It either makes it look really, really cool, or it makes it look really, really bad.

If you look at 'Blade Runner,' it's been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.

That's the miracle of music. No one can reinterpret a Picasso, but a song can be remixed and covered and interpreted in an infinite number of ways. It's a living thing.

There are many ways to see football and interpret it.

I don't want my work to be issue-based. I want people to be able to read it in lots of different ways.

There's so many ways to play a bad guy, and usually people choose the obvious one.

I think, in a lot of ways, directing is puppeteering. I guess I see a lot of analogies between what puppeteers and filmmakers do. There's something about creating life out of things that have no life.

People have to find ways of explaining the work.

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

We cannot do justice to the deeds of former times if we do not in some degree remove ourselves from the circumstances in which we stand and substitute those by which the real actors were surrounded.