Changing Meaning Quotes

There was a time when 'science' meant the systematic pursuit of knowledge through experimentation and observation. But it's rapidly becoming a synonym for progressive politics and materialist philosophy.

Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.

The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago.

With 'Philharmonics,' I had to do a lot of interviews, and it was like I was corrupting something. In many ways, I've said everything in the song. And either I can't go back to what it was because it's changing when I play it, or I still haven't figured out what the song is about.

To me, the songs that I'm most thankful to have been a part of creating are the songs that are able to adapt and change over the years and that mean different things to you at different periods of time in your life.

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

My films are like clouds: their meaning keeps changing every minute.

I don't know what folk music means anymore, because the meaning of that just keeps changing.

I can not 'make my mark' for all time - those concepts are mutually exclusive. 'Lasting effect' is a self-contradictory term. Meaning does not exist in the future and neither do I. Nothing will have meaning 'ultimately.' Nothing will even mean tomorrow what it did today. Meaning changes with the context. My meaningfulness is here. It is enough that I am of value to someone today. It is enough that I make a difference now.