Creative Tempo Quotes

The thing is - do we really need another writer who writes a book every eighteen months, whether the quality is wonderful or not? I mean, maybe. But I can name twenty off the top of my head who do it. Maybe what we need is a writer like me who goes very slow, as well.

The first thing is, you can't write movie music if you don't know how to write quickly.

I've had songs that were spread out over a number of years, and I've written some in ten minutes, and everything in between.

Stop-motion is filmmaking at the pace of a glacier. In live action, you're moving so quickly.

Some songs go super-quick; some take a really long time.

In the time it takes American literary titan William H. Gass to write a novel, other artists have been born, completed their life's work and died. That may be an exaggeration, but only a slight one.

I've been accused, many times, as a writer/director, of my pace being too leisurely and too long.

We should be able to write songs for a new album every six months. If you think about it, it's not a crazy amount of writing.

Sometimes albums can be quick, sometimes they take forever, and we're very good at taking forever.

I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word.