Quotes About Process

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.

Because I've been making music and releasing it for so long, I've got that production-line thing in my brain: I can't do anything new until the last one's out.

The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.

I don't enjoy songwriting.

The vocals are the very last thing I do. So, it's kinda the opposite: with country. it's singing and guitar first, but with rock, I worry about the riff and music, vocals last.

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

I have to feel connected before I record and the song has to spark something inside me. Very few songs do that. I guess it's a good process because I love all of my music.

When I look at commercial studios, I think, "Oh, they're all so nice and tidy," but it's because they don't actually write music in them.

I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.

Music is funny. I shouldn't even ever talk about music, because you can have all the ideas in your head, and it never goes exactly the way that you think it's gonna go.

I love pop music, but I also love noise music, IDM - anything really, I get something out of most kinds of music. I just need to enjoy the process.

The photogram, or camera-less record of forms produced by light, which embodies the unique nature of the photographic process, is the real key to photography.

My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.

It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment.

Always remember that Nature refuses to be rushed. She can only be made to evolve and that takes time, so take heart.

Every action in Nature is voided as it occurs, is repeated as it is voided, and is recorded as it is repeated.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.