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What makes screenplays difficult are the things that require the most discipline and care and are just not seen by most people. I'm talking about movement - screenwriting is related to math and music, and if you zig here, you know you have to zag there. It's like the descriptions for a piece of music - you go fast or slow or with feeling. It's the same. -- Robert Towne
Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure. -- Stephen Sondheim
I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics. -- Temple Grandin
No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore. -- Tommy Lee
I hated science in high school. Technology? Engineering? Math? Why would I ever need this? Little did I realize that music was also about science, technology, engineering and mathematics, all rolled into one. -- Mickey Hart
They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different. -- Justin Guarini
Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about. -- Flea
Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker. -- Flea
Especially girls, but any kids exposed to music programs and arts programs do much better on their tests. They have a better chance of going to college. They can focus better. You know, we're not just automatons learning how to work machines and do engineering and math and science. All of that's great, but you've got to build a whole person. -- Bonnie Raitt
Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically. -- Frank Ocean
Music, to me, is not math or science. It is a language. -- Russell Malone
Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either. -- Catherynne M. Valente
I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late. -- Elizabeth Jane Howard
I love music because it's so fecking brilliant. Music is math, and math is the structure of everything and pretty much perfect. -- Karen Marie Moning
Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion. -- Bruno Mars
You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance. -- Ken Robinson
As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation. -- Blake Judd

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