Quotes About Composition

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.

I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.

So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the mood dictate what's going to happen.

The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.

I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect.

I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.

It had a very good arrangement by Herbie Hancock, but it used existing pieces.

I don't like listening to my music, not even new pieces. Generally, they sound pretty much like I expected them to sound, so it's what I wanted, and that's it.

I can look at a photo and the dimensions of any piece and tell you if it's going to sit well with the four other pieces in your room.

I've composed a fair amount in my life, and some of them have made it on to the screen, some compositions that I've done, a few. And I like doing that. I had never really considered doing a full-length thing. I've worked with other people creating full-length pieces.

I had come from an orchestral background, but I didn't really have any orchestral pieces for film.

I want to write theater pieces, opera, or some kind of amalgamation where there is singing, music and theater.

I think when you look at architectural photography it doesn't help to have piles of old clothes lying on the floor. Architectural photography sets up an artifice.

I always have to have what I believe are the pillars of an album - songs which I can go back to and admire personally as a piece of writing.

It's very difficult to be funny musically. I think I achieved It with 'The Pink Panther.'

You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.

The Bear sat at the other end; the rhythm section was arrayed between them like a string of pearls.