Building Quote by Andres Segovia

To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under construction is…

— Arthur Honegger

The basic idea is always constructed around piano or guitar and a voice, that's what we live and die by, because if you build…

— Wesley Schultz

Performing arts buildings are complex. The acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. So you begin with just making…

— Moshe Safdie

The movement of many people through a building can be musical, if the movement is harmonious, rational, but full of life and feeling.

— Santiago Calatrava

I don’t have a theoretical language for music. I’m really inspired by sculpture, so I like to say, ‘you’re not making music, you’re creating…

— Daniel Lopatin

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create…

— Ajay Naidu

The scaffolding must be removed once the house is built.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Most artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers.

— Marina Abramovic

Musicians have to do what they do and express it musically. All the blah blah blah will get lost in the dialogue.

— Carlos Alomar

I come from an old school of thought where there are musicians on stage, in the house, sitting and jamming to create things. I…

— Jubin Nautiyal

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's…

— Brian Eno

You can't be theoretical when you're building a musical.

— James Lapine