Quotes About Interpretation

There were a lot of other words that Clent used after this, mostly to describe his opinion of Mosca's conduct. None of them were profane, but all of them were long and highly specific, and Mistress Leap might as well have been a goose for all the sense she could make of them.

hands, returned a 'G' close to his own heart.

So much is spoken about music and so little is said. For my part I do not believe that words suffice for such a task, and if they did I would no longer make any music. . . . The thoughts that are expressed to me by the music I love are not too vague to put into words but, on the contrary, too precise.

Put more simply, they did not see art the way we do. They read art in a way we no longer can.

all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.

We were watching this procession. It was fucking terrible and the crucifix was about 20 feet high coming around the corner. And my wee grandson says, 'who's that?' I say, 'that's Jesus'. He says, 'BABY JESUS?!' I say, 'yeah, that's him'. He says, 'SOMEBODY KILLED BABY JESUS!' It was the most sincere religious cry. If Christians did that, I would believe them. 'WHAT? THE BASTARDS KILLED JESUS!

The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.

The Bible differentiates clearly between true faith and mere religiosity.

The Bible stands as the supreme Constitution for all mankind, its laws applying equally to all who live under its domain, without exception or special interpretation.

The Bible will always be the center of controversy.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

That's the trouble with you readers. You know all the plots.

Everyone in the audience is an idiot, but taken together, they're a genius.

These women are always the same; they will, and they will not; their Yes so often merely a cowardly sort of a No; and their No, a coy sort of a Yes. One should be a diplomatist to understand them.

It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed.

The only word in the Martian language is written phonetically: Kay-ray-kh-kuh-ko-kex. It means whatever you want it to mean.

À quoi bon écrire ? tout s'imprime en moi et c'est peut-être la pure poésie que de se laisser imprégner et de déchiffrer en soi-même la signature des choses.

Words differently arranged have a different meaning and meanings differently arranged have a different effect.

In other words Yates had remembered the lesson of his first great master, Fitzgerald—namely, that people rarely say what they mean, and good dialogue is a matter of catching one's characters "in the very act of giving themselves away.

We don't have to have easy moralizing reactions to characters in literature.

The judges say, make it your own, so I just remixed a song if I felt like the piece needed it

Una imagen mental sugerente. Debe germinar en la imaginación de quien la escucha. Debe sobrentenderse por ella una película entera, incluido, a menudo, un marco temporal.

Tell me the Acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish. All that is not action is not worth reading.