Structure Quotes

“For me, the score is an exact relationship of all the parts. It's an architectural drawing.”

“Plot is the bone structure of a novel.”

“The great secret of a successful play is that the audience is two steps ahead of the characters but two steps behind the author.”

“My work isn't about anything other than the way it's organized.”

“Art is not a matter of feeling, but a matter of syntax.”

“Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.”

“Structure is the essence of thinking.”

“The surprise of the chiasmus is that the second half of the phrase is not a repetition of the first but its reversal.”

“Architecture is politics.”

“A string of opinions is no more a curriculum than a string of beads is a necklace.”

“You can't write a musical without a book. And the book is the key.”

“My formal thinking is closer to architecture or to the growth of crystals.”

“The songs are the skeleton of the book.”

“Even if you're writing a sonnet, which is a very strict form, you can still have a lot of freedom within it.”

“Structure is a way of getting at an experience of color.”

“The structure of the social system is made up of the institutionalized patterns of normative culture.”

“I'm dealing with equations, and all my music is equations.”

“Discipline is a major factor in team success.”

“The primary function of form is to make the listener's experience of the piece coherent.”

“We're not a jam band. Everything is very composed and structured, even if it sounds chaotic.”