Quotes About Interpretation

The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice.

Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege!

If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument, that concept comes through very clearly.

Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.

Be it flute, piano or any instrument, there would always be a reason to bring in the particular feel into a song.

The way I make music is often to kind of treat instrumentation like I would a sample.

I can't be enthusiastic as soon as I write something on the music sheet. The music sheet is only the beginning: it has to be listened to, played by the instruments, and then heard by the director, but most importantly, it has to be listened to by the public.

An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments.

I thought it would be interesting to play classical music on rock instruments.

When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely insulted. And you'd have a right to be.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.

I tend not to approach things intellectually at first. Maybe after the fact i can look at it and see ultimately what it's doing. I start with the characters and their inner lives.

I believe in the romantic interchange between intellectuals about fashion.

I don't know how to depict intelligence.

The way I define 'intelligent design' is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked.

I don't care about the bare fact that anyone liked or didn't like a book or movie; they can only interest me in that bare fact by writing an intelligent review.

A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.

For most developers, that kind of situation - a player figuring out how to do something that the designer didn't intend - to most developers, that's a bug. For me, that's a celebration.

One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

God did not intend people to be gay.

Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.

People don't always read things the way they are intended.

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.