Quotes About Composition

I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.

Every song I've written is luck, I think; it's luck - 'How did that just happen?'

The original 'Don't Let It Get to You' started with a beat. The drums came first. All the musical and lyrical elements were written over those drums.

Most times, lyrics are the last thing I listen to, being a musician.

When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

Illegal immigration is not merely a mechanism for changing the political, religious and cultural composition of America; it is literally a mechanism for changing, in ways that Americans have not agreed to and immigration laws have not authorized, the actual DNA of America.

the writer is [...] the work's way of getting itself written

hubris on Henry's, too much Greek prose composition—whatever

Some people think of editing as the physical act of cutting," Hirsch says. "But that's a misconception. The French use the word montage for editing, which means 'to build.' And I think that is a more precise description.

Make sure that the very different colors go next to each other so it looks deliberate. You don't want to look as if you've just run out of colour and gone for the next nearest thing.

A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its laws and rules are not, however, harbored in the inaccessibility of a secret; it is simply that they can never be booked, in the present, into anything that could rigorously be called a perception.

Je choisis des mots simples et concrets... J'essaie de faire des phrases courtes et j'évite les inversions autant que possible. Je ne mets pas un mot très bref à côté d'un mot de plusieurs syllables... Si un mot finit par une consonne, je lui trouve un compagnon qui commence par une voyelle. Et je lis mon texte à voix haute pour entendre comment ça sonne.

When I talk about ideas, I really mean ideas of mise en scène or—if I were to be shocking about it—of framing, or the way shots are put together, which these days are the only ideas whose profundity I wish to recognize.

painted three quadrants

Life is what you remember, Nan thinks as she shoves dirt into the old sneaker. Who can remember everything? Well, no one, and that's a blessing. Life is and always has been a composition, much like this garden; it will not be contained and cannot be determined.

Some had a whole epic, others just a verse

A thousand violins cloy very rapidly without percussion.

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

Caffeine is made of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen: the same as cocaine, thalidomide, nylon, TNT and heroin.

Writing is selection. Just to start a piece of writing you have to choose one word and only one from more than a million in the language. Now keep going. What is your next word?

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

Beauty is simply a perfect composition of a status.