Harmonious Structure Quotes

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under construction is held in balance only by the miracle of a kind of internal logic, an innate sense of proportion.

I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible.

I am more convinced than ever. Conceptual integrity is central to product quality.

I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.

When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that inspired Bach and Beethoven, the architecture of painting that is inspiring Picasso as it inspired Velasquez, that it is the architecture of life itself that is the inspiration of the great poets and philosophers.

Just because something is very technical or heavy doesn't mean that it's not melodic.

The road to freedom is a beautiful system