In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very…

“I don't know how you hear music. I imagine that if you like music at all then it has, in your head, some kind…

— Nick Coleman

Music is structure out of Chaos

— Stephen Sondheim

It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows just don't…

— Morton Feldman

If you get basics that can be switched and piece it together, that is so important.

— Zendaya

For mine, the villains of the piece were always important. In a traditional sense, that's always an important role.

— Ben Mendelsohn

There really isn't any limit to the number of people who want a piece of you, and it's all important stuff.

— Donald J. Carty

...if a child waited to speak until all the grown-ups settled down and gave her some room to say her piece, the most important…

— Katherine Hannigan

I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason…

— Leo Ornstein

Wholeness is sort of a dubious concept. Because in terms of the human body and literal wholeness and structures, you think: "here are the…

— Carrie Brownstein

Preparing to improvise is at a level commensurate with mastering the structure in a European classical piece. Another way to define improvisation is spontaneous…

— Jimmy Heath

It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those…

— Andre Agassi

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around…

— Bruce Cockburn

For all forms, writing dialogue is almost like writing music. I pay close attention to rhythms and tones.

— Sefi Atta

I, as a young guy getting out of music school, I didn't like the prospect of spending my life writing music for about 200 people.

— Philip Glass

I like the challenge of writing music without being the coolest guy or band in the room.

— John Gourley