"If you're going to cover a Beatles song, you really need to make it something special."
"Art captured its essence by describing 'The Sound of Silence' as a reflection of the struggle for people to connect, not just on an international level, but especially on an emotional one."
"Just because what you listen to sounds like violence or death or whatever, that doesn't mean that that translates into the physical world."
"I found it fascinating reading through the lyrics, the way it's a tough subject that they're dealing with."
"Master of Puppets is essentially about drug use: the master is the drug, and the puppet is a person who's addicted."
"That's the beauty behind music, how people can interpret different things and grasp onto it and make it their own meaning."
"It's called the resurrection symphony, and we could hear it as portraying resurrection."
"This album is the results of that healing process, and it's like... like I'm not telling you not to interpret the album in whatever way works best for you, but I don't think you can talk about this album in its true form if you are not a black man."
"The result is music that can at once be read as a celebration and lament of the waste generated as a byproduct of corporate machinations."
"J Cole, why? Because I felt like the album, him giving the three different meanings."
"What a composer writes is just a road map, but along the road there are trees, there are flowers, and it's on me to following the musical flow."
"Throughout his life, Mercury refused to explain what the song meant."
"There's a sense through the darkness in the heft of the music that there is some kind of light shining through."
"While today’s artists may have more dedicated, more involved fans than ever before, the tendency to look at songs as a conversation means those listeners might miss the bigger picture of what the music is really saying."
"This felt so much darker and so much more ominous... Avengers music, but very differently than we've heard in the past."
"Slowing down the music doesn't necessarily ruin the tunes mind you but it is less accurate which is the problem here."
"Are you convinced that 'Driver's License' is about Sabrina Carpenter or could it be about another brunette girl?"
"It's kind of wild how twisted a song like this really is."
"Listening to Perfect is like watching the time capsule of two soul mates as the throat tightening lyrics equally fit both the moment they met and the moment they say 'I do'."
"I think sometimes perfection in music is just that perfect, sincere interpretation and not like a pitch-perfect or perfectly mastered."
"If the emotion hits you, that means it's part of the song, so there's nothing wrong with it."
"Zodiac is director David Fincher's unsung masterpiece, skillfully made, perfectly cast, and shockingly faithful to the source material."
"It's amazing how one song can inspire so many different interpretations as a music video."
"Nobody is so cool they can tell everybody else how to interpret a record."
"If y'all listen to my music, then you're gonna get all the answers though."
"The album title 'Nobody is Listening' challenges us to look past the surface level interpretation."
"Pieces of the song represent reckless theology."
"Echo is one of the most popular Vocaloid songs ever written. The lyrics to Echo are vague and can only be interpreted in many different ways."
"And without consulting the original versions of these tunes, you wouldn't know."
"One of my favorite parts of this channel is watching some music, reading some lyrics, and breaking down those lyrics from a mental health perspective."
"Wow, it's the Wubbox song and they're drawing it with a pencil."
"At its heart, After Hours is a mix of fiction and reality."
"Songs like 'Toss a Coin to Your Witcher' are medieval versions of propaganda."
"It's not just about achieving a good sound, it's about translating the intent of the song."
"This song seems to be narrating the end of a toxic relationship, and as it's spiraling out, she's illustrating the emotions that you feel as things kind of fizzle out."
"So when you play this, do you think of particular moments in the poem? Definitely."
"Bernstein was one of the most faithful interpreters you will ever encounter if you actually follow a score and see what he does."
"That demon is the weekend and what he's searching for I'll argue in this video is love."
"Music is subjective, and it can be anything you want it to be."
"It's like jazz music, the most important notes are the ones that they don't play."
"Let's push boundaries, is what I'm getting out of this song."
"Hey Joe is really a blues arrangement of a cowboy song."
"It's about the music, the phrasing, the sound, the story."
"This to me feels a lot more introspective and sad for sure."
"I think the beautiful thing about music is the fact that people can always appear things whatever way they want to."
"It's not just the black and white, some trap music lyrics mean more than their goddamn paper."
"It's my interpretation of the Stooges in some kind of weird jazz freeform style, I think."
"Bach didn't necessarily dictate what instruments were supposed to be played, it was simply writing music and it's been up to interpretation."
"There's nothing cooler than a song that's not a metal song and then a metal band doing a cover of like a pop song."
"This cover of 'Under My Thumb' by the Stones, and I love it, it brings out all the insidious undertones of the original and makes them overtones."
"It's so interesting seeing cultures play the same piece of music completely differently."
"The human interpretation of music... it's very personal. You don't get that with samples."
"Be very pensive; think about the story that Mick is singing about here."
"Many pieces provide us with some interpretational opportunities."
"Every little marking, it's not just the notes. It's the slurs, the markings, the dynamic markings, everything, anything Schumann has written is not by accident."
"If you do know anything about this John Cage piece of music, I don't plan to solve it in the manner of 4 minutes 33 seconds because if I did that, it would just be a video full of silence."
"Take us on your journey and tell us what these lyrics mean."
"There's no such thing as 'the way it goes.' You don't play a piece 'the way it goes,' you play a piece the way it is."
"It's not straight. That is the most important conception of this song and for a lot of Led Zeppelin's music."
"This album is not a mere linear story... it's open to interpretation and that's the beauty of it."
"The dancing really made the lyrics come alive."
"Music is always up for interpretation, even if the artist has specified what they meant by writing a song."
"I love when a song is maybe about Jesus or maybe about a hot woman. I mean, they are the best songs."