#interpret

I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs. ↗

— Judy Collins

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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak. ↗

— Kim Weston

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The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time. ↗

— David Guterson

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I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees? ↗

— Fiona Apple

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Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in. ↗

— David Bowie

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I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

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It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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