Quotes About Process

I don't read or write music in the traditional sense, so I have to figure it out on the fly while I'm in the studio.

People get so focused on the big dream that they forget about the process.

I think the kind of person that gravitates toward New York is a person that's not so much focused on controlling exactly how they appear and how they exit. They're more fascinated with the process.

I am focusing on the process of making my dream come true, which is to play professional basketball.

Mr. Trump wants citizens of other nations to know that there is a legal process that needs to be followed, and that that process is only way to come to America.

No teacher ever skipped the student process... if you want to be a leader, you have to be a follower first.

Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art.

The deductive reasons for a course of action usually follow rather than precede the course of action. Thought follows life.

I got so excited, just talking about hummus to the Food Network. I feel like you don't see a lot of hummus and challah and shakshuka on the Food Network and that was really the meat of the process.

When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.

I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it feels like it's going badly or that I'm lost, I know I'll eventually find my way because I've been through it before. But writing itself is still hard.

Sometimes you're forced to do the cover before the story is done.

When you're in the throes of writing, I find, the lessons you've casually imparted to others are not in the forefront of your mind. Which may be good or bad. Probably both.

Usually, writing lyrics for me is like bleeding drop by drop from the forehead.

A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.

Civil servants take forever to do anything.

You can work on an album forever, but finishing it is a whole different deal.

Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.

In a certain sense, every time you sit down to write a song, there's a fear that you've forgotten how to do it.

You can't rush an art form.

Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.

To articulate the ideas in your head, you need formal education, so you study music theory to do that. And that's the only responsibility that you have - to make that process work for you and express yourself. In this life, nothing is more important.

I try not to think too hard about music. I like to see where it goes. I try not to give it a direction. I figure out what it is as it's forming. I don't have any goal in mind other than to make the best music I can.

Reality is observer-determined - it's a spatio-temporal process, which fortunately means that things must change.