Quotes About Complexity

Life is never free of contradictions

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!

Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is 'not complex or complicated; sincere.'

It's difficult for them to do a deal at these levels.

I wanted to be that, The one which was vast, The one which laughed, The one which surpassed, Yes, which also collapsed.True, it was abstract.I wanted to be that.I still, want to be that!

Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done.

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.

There is nothing more difficult than talking about music.

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Formalism is music that people don't understand at first hearing.

My music is not lovely.

When things get tough, there are two things that make life worth living: Mozart, and quantum mechanics

The narrow gauge mindset of the past is insufficient for today's wicked problems. We can no longer play the music as written. Instead, we have to invent a whole new scale.

What's interesting about a person without problems?

Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.

Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.

I love you so, But why I love you, I'll never know.