Quotes About Interpretation

Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides.

The true work of the critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him

An artist must paint not simply surface light, but what is inside, what he sees within his subject

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

Music is always a commentary on society.

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk in order to provide articles for people who can't read.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

A good story is sometimes preferable to an accurate one.

Perhaps nobody has changed the course of history as much as the historians.

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians.

an artist is about condensing ideas into time.

Werner Heisenberg put it, "what we observe is not nature in itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning." Heisenberg, a German physicist, made this observation regarding quantum mechanics, but it holds equally true for explorations of the animal

The bonobo would first of all urge the atheist to stop "sleeping furiously." There is no point getting all worked up about the absence of something, especially something as open to interpretation as God.

We attach such importance to verbal communication that we lose track of what our bodies say about us.

What we observe is not nature in itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. —Werner Heisenberg (1958)1

What we observe is not nature in itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. —Werner Heisenberg (1958)

I stop there, for who can tell me what beauty is?

All language is but a poor translation.

In Arabic linguistic usage, we are told, the interpretation of "water" as knowledge is confirmed by the common fi gure of speech that calls a man of vast knowledge an "ocean." Moreover, the comparison of water and knowledge suggests that just as those who would sail the sea without a ship would drown in it, those who look for knowledge among those who do not have it will perish.

If in reading the Bible you find justification for abusing, humiliating, disgracing, harming, or hurting, especially when it makes you feel better about yourself, you are absolutely wrong.

We fixate on what is relevant to us, and we see what we want to see.

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