Quotes About Interpretation

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.

Great music is in the ear of the beholder.

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.

I've never been one to talk analytically about a music video or whatever I do.

I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.

I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going to make a musical out of that?'

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.

Control of vibrato helps your musical expression.

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.

The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself.

People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.

Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film.

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically, both have nothing in common.

Music runs through everything I do - I even think musically; even when I was acting, but, especially, when I am directing. Directing is very musical.

When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the actors and the director.

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.

I started out as a singer and a musician, and I was taught that your job is just to get out of the way of Brahms or Arthur Miller or Shakespeare and convey the brilliance that they created.

It is important for the musician to learn as much about the composer as possible and to study the music he has written. Then, even a short piece by Brahms or Chopin can be played with much more understanding.

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.

What I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music.