Daily Inspiration Quote by Craig Armstrong

“Final thoughts” has the chilly ring of a tombstone: definitive, sealed, beyond revision. Craig Armstrong’s line pokes at that melodrama with a composer’s instinct for cadence. He hears the phrase the way you hear a too-heavy chord at the end of a piece - over-resolving, too eager to announce The End. By swapping in “closing words,” he keeps the ritual of wrapping up while dodging the existential slam of “final.” It’s a tiny edit that changes the emotional temperature.

The intent feels practical and quietly funny. Armstrong isn’t staging a grand philosophical argument; he’s deflating a cliché that speakers default to when they’re trying to sound authoritative. “So, you know” is the tell: conversational, slightly self-mocking, a refusal to posture. The subtext is that conclusions are rarely conclusive. In art - and especially in film scoring, where Armstrong built much of his reputation - nothing is truly “final.” A theme returns in a different key, a motif reappears after you thought it had resolved, an ending is designed to echo in the viewer rather than shut the door.

Contextually, it reads like studio or stage talk: the moment when an audience expects an elegant landing and the speaker acknowledges the choreography. “Closing words” frames an ending as a courtesy, not a verdict. It’s a small act of tonal control - the same skill composers use to end a piece without pretending it contains the last word on anything.