John Trudell Quotes

Like when I hear a beat, it might make you feel a way, but then it might make me feel a completely different way.

The most delightful aspect about the language of cinema is that it speaks to each of us in different ways - it is a purely subjective experience.

There's nothing particularly unique about my experiences except that they're my experiences.

Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility.

People relate to songs so differently. No matter what it's about in reality, people create their own meaning behind it and connect with it on their own terms.

I don't know why people see the things that they do. I wouldn't pay to see them, they don't touch me or move me in any way.

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story, when you read a book, in a way that is unique and special to each person who reads it.

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good or bad, it's always surprising because a whole human being is coming to that piece of writing.

With most of the songs and music that I've composed, irrespective of the myriad videos made, I was always careful not to overly define the experience, leaving room for people to internalize things for themselves, making their experience more integral.

When you're watching a movie and find yourself getting emotional, it's because you're bringing something personal to the images. It's the same thing with acting. You're bringing the essence of your core emotional being to that moment.

Everybody has their thing they like or don't like to see. It's all in your head. That's why people take their own pictures, because it's difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon... what it means to you.

Watching something is a personal experience, and I think watching something that is dealing with a heavy subject matter, it's a personal thing.

I think finales are always so hit or miss because they're so personal. When you do a finale, it's always up to the person watching it.

Poets are always taking the weather so personally.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.

At another level, though, poems can craft an eraser - we can't revise the past, but poems allow us some malleability, an increased freedom of response, comprehension, feeling. Choice, what choices are possible for any given person, is another theme that's run through my work from the start.

All tastes are expressions of belief.