Meaning

Cut the pie any way you like, ‘meanings’ just ain’t in the head!

Hilary Putnam, Meaning and reference, Journal of philosophy, vol. 70, no. 19, 1973, pp. 699–711, p. 704

A lot of nonsense is talked nowadays about the “meaning” of music. Music indeed has a meaning, though it is not one that can be expressed in words.

Ralph Vaughan Williams, The making of music, Westport, Conn, 1955, p. 3