Thematic Unity Quotes

It's easy to make an album full of great songs. But I want people to go for the ride. The songs have to make sense together.

Most film scores have one vibe, and they stick with it.

Every Chanel show I've been to is very conceptual. Even down to the music and smells, the whole thing is connected.

Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some kind of feeling. I really take pride in that.

So I prefer to do the entire music for a film. And when I'm doing the background score, I can weave the whole film together in terms of themes and songs for a good cinematic feel.

All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story.

One of the things I try to do is try to make repetitions, rhymes, and mirrorings across the subject matter of my own books so that the chapter titles and the epigraphs and pictures all kind of form a tapestry. In this book, I retell fifteen of the stories. You have the critical frame, and then you have these rosettes like the motif in a carpet.

I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable. It's not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it's not obvious or even conscious on the artists' part.

However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.

I'm looking back to a period of my life when I was badly hurt and then looking at another time when I felt I had things going for me again, so I suppose there is a theme [of the Faith album].

If in making a picture you introduce two ideas, you weaken it by half-if three, it weakens by compound ratio-if four, the picture will be really too weak to consider at all and the human interest would be entirely lost.

All I'm really interested in musically is trying to make concept albums. Serving a larger sum than the parts.

I need a big picture. I can't just do a collection of songs; that doesn't work for me.

I'm not pretending to be an academic, or to have this down to a science. It's strictly my taste. But there is a connection between everything I play and the sets I put together.

Whenever I have a bunch of tunes written, I always find a kind of uniform that accompanies the songs.

I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.

I wasn't writing stories with the intention of creating a particular collection. I simply wrote stories, and then discovered common themes among a good number of them.

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.

I thought of the structure as musical. The first piece, for instance, contains the names/subject matter of every person to come in the book. Like a piece of music with themes, etc.

I try to construct each of my novels around one central theme - core tensions shared by the characters.

I am sure that everyone will immediately discover how much 'The Brightest Void' and 'The Shadow Self' are entwined with each other but, at the same time, are two independent records which stand on their own.

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

Once we establish an architectural style in each park, we stick with it religiously and comprehensively so that it comes out as a gestalt.

I just felt like, you know, I read a lot of scripts out in L.A., out here in the industry and I just felt like this film was just being genuine. I just felt like it had really great characters. And all the three different characters have completely different stories and they're all kind of intertwined together thematically. So I just thought it had great characters, great themes

I wish more artists would do that sort of thing - just focus on one sound on a record instead of "Here's my club banger, here's my metro booming track, and then here's my Americana song." I like albums to feel like a world. That's just me.