Quotes About Complexity

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.

Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians.

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

Why is Schoenberg's Music so Hard to Understand?

The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it's still a melody.

Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in rock and roll.

Music is that great language where a lot can be said and little can be proven.

I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself minimalist at all

Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

There is no problem of human nature which is insoluble.

The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.

Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration.

The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great.

...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.

I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words.

In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.

As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.

I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.

One of the many interesting challenges nature presents us is its apparent disinterest in maintaining the order humans crave.