Quotes About Composition

The world, in those of its sectors which realize a structure, is comparable to a symphony.

every story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arranged

Schubert is said to have told a friend that his own creative process consisted in "remembering a melody" that neither he nor anyone else had ever thought of before.

understand what part they played. Symmetry. And because I understood that, I understood that a single painting or composition or poem might change the future. Where its influence might end—if it ever did—was a mystery. I had spent lifetimes watching the effects of my choices, and so I knew that Joseph Hannigan was meant to be the very best of them. The world had put him into my hands; I could only guess at its design. But I knew he

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

A missanga, todos a vêem. Ninguém nota o fio que, em colar vistoso, vai compondo as missangas. Também assim é a voz do poeta: um fio de silêncio costurando o tempo.

Of all the Grail romances the most famous, and the most artistically significant, is Parzival, composed sometime between 1195 and 1216.

If you stop to think about it, you'll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters are always the same, only the arrangement varies. From letters words are formed, from words sentences, from sentences chapters, and from chapters stories.

With composition, parts can't be shared with other objects. The life of the part is completely within the life span of the whole.

Music theory, then, very simply, could be defined as a search for how and why music sounds right or wrong. In other words, the purpose of music theory is to explain why something sounded the way it did and how that sound can be made again.

The purpose of music theory is to both explain why something sounded the way it did, and how that sound can be made again.

Anything anyone can point to in nature is composed of small patterns and is a part of larger ones.

Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy.

the way as the performances enhance and even change the original idea. This is not "improvisation," this is like jazz: composition-in-the-moment.

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together.

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

I've always said that the actor is only an element of the image, rarely the most important. The actor is important with his dialogue, with the landscape, with a gesture but the actor in himself is nothing.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show.

After an insight occurs, one must check it out to see if the connections genuinely make sense. The painter steps back from the canvas to see whether the composition works, the poet rereads the verse with a more critical eye, the scientist sits down to do the calculations or run the experiments. Most lovely insights never go any farther, because under the cold light of reason fatal flaws appear. But if everything checks out, the slow and often routine work of elaboration begins

Bad music is what will ruin music, not the instruments musicians choose to play.

Whether our lives are magnificent or wretched depends upon our ordering of daily details. We must organize the details into a composition that pleases

I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.

Then I thought, Maybe it doesn't need a bass part as much as it needs a bass sound. I turned on my Roland Juno-106 synth and created a very simple and understated bass sound. All low end, no attack, no high end. Just simple, anchoring bass. I played it over the chords and it worked. Most people wouldn't even notice the bass; it just sat there underneath the song, holding it together.

All that is not prose is verse; and all that is not verse is prose.