Quotes About Interpretation

With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

No matter what hyenas sound like, they are not actually laughing.

As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.

You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing.

For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.

Of course, Paul McCartney's sound is different from mine, but it's the way you hear things, really.

You can't always make out the words I sing with Soundgarden.

We wrote many a Rage song where we'd use Soundgarden as a template.

Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.

The difference between noise and music is in what the musician does with the sounds.

Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like.

I take sounds and change them into words.

If you put four different people on a podium conducting the same downbeat, you get four different sounds. It's a little mysterious and fascinating. There's so much you can do with motions and body movements besides giving accurate beats.

If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.

It is true that if you hear our music described, it sounds unappealing. I used to laugh and agree with people when they said it didn't make any sense.

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.

Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.

I read all of the stories that people write about me. The ones that are really interesting are the ones where they actually write their take on me as opposed to just printing what I said, because they're asking similar questions so often, sometimes it just sounds like I'm answering the questions different intentionally.

When someone is on the phone telling me a story, I'm hearing the soundtrack that goes with it.

You boil down your influences to a soup, and it all informs you.