Structure Quotes

“Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.”

“The longue durée is a structure which lies beneath the surface of the past, a framework which has a powerful and often secret influence on the course of events.”

“I learned a lot about architecture in music school, about structure and form, and I think that influenced my arrangements.”

“Structure is the key to understanding function.”

“Composition is a way of organizing sound, but it's also a way of organizing your life.”

“The world economy is the greatest of all structures.”

“Let this circumstance of our constitution be remarked, that our superiors are known to us, but we are not known to them.”

“I'm always thinking about the last page of the issue as I'm writing the first.”

“The problem is to find a form that accommodates the mess.”

“The media are mute, not because they are evil, but because of their structure.”

“What I try to do is to write a piece of music that is a unity from beginning to end.”

“The form of the work needs to have its own internal logic.”

“Unlike other forms of capital, social capital inheres in the structure of relations between actors and among actors.”

“I was always interested in the question of how things are put together.”

“The military is not a democracy. It is a benign dictatorship.”

“You can't show a beetle crossing the street and call it a story. It has to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. The end must be a resolution, not just a stop.”

“The final abstract expression of every art is number.”

“My ideal is to be able to be spontaneous within a frame.”

“The main thing is to have a framework... and then to find the freedom inside that framework.”

“The first step in making a branch of science autonomous is to fix its language.”