When I'm working, I look forward to weekends. Film sets give your time a structure; otherwise, one day can run into another. I often find myself in unusual locations, so Friday nights I might head out with some of the cast and crew to explore the town.
There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet.
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
We parcel up time into years and months and days because without compartmentalisation the tundra of time is impossible to navigate.
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.
Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.
When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.
I'm not very well organized unless I'm plugged into a structure like the opera or a movie. When I'm doing that, I have to be organized.
Nearly every notable event in 'Wake' has a date or a time stamp.
In fact, I think when we carry out a complete analysis of time, I think what we're going to discover is that like matter, time is composed of elemental, discrete types.
Time itself is talked about as something that is unusual, that there could be a parallel time.
History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.
Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
Cage always wanted to know what my structure was, if I had one. I often did have some sense of the time structure. Then he'd make a different one for the music.