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Quotes About Composition

la melo­día se compone de tres elementos, que son letra, armonía y ritmo.
~ Plato
Sirine buys sweet, dense Mexican candies, pastel-colored Korean candies, crackling layers of tea leaves, lemongrass, kaffir leaves, Chinese medicinal herbs and powders, Japanese ointments and pastes. She tastes everything edible, studies the new flavors, tests the shock of them; and she learns, every time she tastes, about balance and composition, addition and subtraction.
~ Diana Abu-Jaber
writing novels was a cannibal's art, in which one often mixed small portions of one's friends and one's enemies together, seasoned them with imagination, and allowed the whole to stew together into a savory concoction.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Most everything I've ever written has .been done to 'assignment.'
~ Henry Mancini
I try to write five or six songs each year and not just in one genre.
~ Don Felder
Most of everything I've ever written actually was written on acoustic. 'Do You Feel' was written on electric. 'I'm in You' was written on piano.
~ Peter Frampton
It's hard for me to use any electronic sounds at all, really. I'm always just layering acoustic sounds.
~ Bonobo
To us the music is the most important element and they lyrics are something that adds an extra element.
~ Ron Mael
I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.
~ John Mayer
When I am writing music, I sometimes envision a video playing alongside.
~ Jorja Smith
Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.
~ Howard Shore
that the composition of human blood varies with cosmic influences; and that chemical tests showed that planetary influences and cycles affect the water content of human cells.
~ Unknown
All good song-writers have no more than half a dozen good tunes in their systems, and if they have that many, they are liberally blessed.
~ Irving Berlin
Brahms writes music. I just write songs.
~ Irving Berlin
Photographing a cake can be art.
~ Irving Penn
Are not gross Bodies and Light convertible into one another, and may not Bodies receive much of their Activity from the Particles of Light which enter their Composition?
~ Isaac Newton
MUDIE MEASURE Ten lines make one page; Ten pages make one point; Two points make one chapter; Five chapters make one episode; Two episodes make one volume; Three volumes make one tired.
~ Israel Zangwill
Il suo segreto è il modo in cui la vista scorre su figure che si succedono come in una partitura musicale nella quale non si può cambiare spostare nessuna nota
~ Italo Calvino
Tyndall measured the absorption of infrared radiation by carbon dioxide and water vapor, and showed that slight changes in atmospheric composition would significantly raise the earth's surface temperature. He also suggested that methane could affect earth's temperature, but methane is so rare that it was not discovered in the atmosphere until 1948.
~ Dale Jamieson
When grown-ups take a picture, they have to get a shot of every possible combination of people. That's the first rule of being a grown-up.
~ Dan Gutman
The first thing to realize is that if you have a large organization filled with a relatively homogenous population of employees, then that composition did not happen by chance.
~ Unknown
Keenly attend to team composition and dynamics. • Define, reinforce, and relentlessly protect the team's creative autonomy. • Make it safe to fail and to give feedback. • Celebrate hugely when the group takes initiative.
~ Daniel Coyle
Music listening, performance, and composition engage nearly every area of the brain that we have so far identified, and involve nearly every neural subsystem.
~ Daniel J. Levitin
Music is organized sound.
~ Daniel J. Levitin