Tina Ambani Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

People get out of music what they want to get out of it, and all I try to do is do the same thing.

Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings.

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

Film for me became how I related to everything else.

People will come up to me at shows and tell me that a song touched them in a completely different way than I wrote it. That's fun. Fans translating it in their own way.

For me, all the materials and objects I employ come from a specific space that's very personal.

The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

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.

It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.

A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.

I read things and imagine them and then kind of start trying to kind of take what I imagine and make it visual for everybody else to see. It just happens to be my personal vision, and every person's is going to be different, every book reader.

There is no good or bad cinema, there are films that connect either less or more with audience.

You finish a film not in the editing, but in the conversations that audiences have with themselves - and in that sense, every viewer is making a slightly different film. And that's wonderful.

I want to create films that will speak to different parts of our hearts and brains, stories told from a different angle.

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

I think myself that, rather like books, music is meant to enter into the brain, well via your ears rather than your eyes but, it's - I think a lot more should be left to the imagination.

I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just want (the audience) to have an experience that moves them.

The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.

Photography isn't about seeing, it's about feeling. If I don't have some kind of feeling for what I'm shooting, how can I expect the person who looks at it to feel anything?

I don't want to sound like I'm trying to be too deep about it, but when we play shows, music takes everybody on their own journey - because one song might mean something to me, that means something completely different to someone else.