The rules of thumb with which we approached our music: Repeating a musical phrase the same way twice needs a hell of a better reason than a-a-b-a form. Never do anything confused that can be done simple. Never do anything dull that can be done interesting.
“I had never seen war, or even talked about it at length with someone who had, but I was young and knew something of violence, and so believed that war would be no more than a new experience for me, as other things… had been new experiences. War is not a new experience; it is a new world… Even its geography is new, because it is a geography in which insignificant hills and hollows are lifted to the importance of cities.”
Gene Wolfe