Thematic Cohesion Quotes

For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don't. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the back-story.

Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy and all over the place.

If you're doing something on an interesting scale that involves an entire universe of characters, one way to unite them is to have them all undergo a common experience, and there is something at Christmas that unites everybody. It already sets a stage within the stage.

I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.

But you know, I really like to present the songs on an album as a story, as something thematic, rather than something you'd put on a random shuffle.

One thing that I've often done under the Projectors is build an album from a central conceit.

But after that, I was extremely happy with the story and the look of the show at the beginning of season two - everything was working together. I felt like it was finished conceptually.

While we can all access articles and information in so many places now - across blogs, in newspapers, on video - there is something very powerful about putting it all together into an edited format in a single issue that has a narrative stretching across the themes.