By the time Sonic Youth formed in 1981, my musical tastes had left the Dead behind, but I was always very proud of the fact that we had three different singers singing individually from different points of view, like the Dead.
The better you hear a thing put, the more certain you are there's another view.
My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.
I think it is important that you have people from all different vanguards, from all different walks of society and different viewpoints to be focused on the struggle for equality and democracy. We need as many champions for the cause and as many events as possible to help keep this in focus.
I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.
We get to experience the same thing in very different ways with different parts of ourselves.
The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality
Everyone sees drama from his own perspective.
We're not friends - in fact, we pretty much as a rule irritate each other. But we've learnt to embrace it and use it as a strength... the other guy's always seeing something from the opposite pole.
What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.
... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.
It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
I'm always trying to see things from different peoples' perspectives, to understand why they love something.
Each week, from a different point of view, you get another look at God, and that's exciting to me.
Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.
There are people whose work I greatly admire who just don't write to my experience in any way.
If I have seen further than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarfs.
At a very young age, I was influenced enormously by Julio Cortazar or Carlos Fuentes. In that literature, there's always an exploration of different perspectives, points of view.
One man's fish is another man's poisson.
A lot of times, politics, global issues are very black and white. There is a place for that, but it's also fantastic to have art side by side, from different viewpoints, open for interpretations.
If you have somebody who's brilliant and highly creative with a different point of view than you have, and a very different intellectual background, great things can happen.
Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.
Maybe politically it wasn't wise but when people have different view points I think the public has a right to hear it and the public has a right to make decisions based on those view points.
'The Help' sheds light on a certain truth in America, but the tragedy is if we don't get a chance to contrast it with other points of views. 'The Butler' does that, 'Red Tails' does that and that's what '96 Minutes' does.
No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.
