Quotes on Piece

The thing that makes me want to write a piece of music is having something to talk about, you know? Something I want to get across. Because I'm a composer, music is my first language, and that's what I reach for when I want to convey something.

Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

I think most people gain some sense of how to look at a painting, but no one ever teaches you how to look at a piece of silver.

Everyone who gave me food, who took away my hunger, inspired me to compose. They told me their stories, and I had no other way to console them than with a piece of music, and that is how I learned. I did not resolve their problems with my songs, but I created a moment of release.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.