Shelby Lynne 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.

Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.

I think in some ways, it can do a listener a disservice to explain a song. I think I'd rather leave a little room for people to put themselves in it.

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes, so that it's really left open for a lot of things, even though I remember a specific impression of something I had at the time. I can't say a song is about this or that; in fact, I wouldn't even want to. I just prefer to have people live it anyway they want. Because it's theirs after that. There's nothing I can do about it anymore

I don't expect everyone to get something deep out of it. Some people can just listen to the music, or get their aggressions out, but I think with any great painting or movie, album or whatever it is, it's better if people can take what they need from it. That they're not forced to get some particular message.

I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.

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.

The play is not in the words, it's in you!

Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.

To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.

A masterpiece doesn't push you around. It lets you make up your own mind about what it means - and change it as often as you like.

The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.

the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private, and cannot be communicated to others.

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.

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

I think, for me anyway, music and film is where you can really transport yourself to another universe.

A great poem leaves so much room for everybody to have such a different reaction to it.

Songs are about whatever you want them to be about. For me it might mean something completely different than what it means to you. So I'd say it's about whatever the listener thinks it's about.

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 don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.

I admire 'Adventure Time' for being a piece of art in the way that I think art should be. If you want to see it is poetry, you can, and if you don't, you can watch a fun cartoon.

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.