Quotes About Composition

I wrote it in one sitting early the next morning. When something assembles itself that fast, it's clear it's been composing itself somewhere in the unknowable back of the mind for a long time. It wanted to be written; it was restless for the racetrack; it galloped along once I sat down at the computer.

When something assembles itself that fast, it's clear it's been composing itself somewhere in the unknowable back of the mind for a long time.

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

John Ruskin wrote that composition is the arrangement of unequal things.

Composition is the arrangement of unequal things

What becomes of a chain of argument when the links are made of different metals, each with a separate frangibility?

although the people walking along the streets were strangers to each other, they formed a tight chain, like some organic composition, and I could not squeeze in. Could sharing ordinary, normal faces forge such a strong bond among them? Moreover, even the things they wore matched. The mass-produced patterns of today called fashion. Is that a negation of the uniform, for heaven's sake, or simply a new kind of uniform?

Until the song is sung and the musicians have all gone home, not even you can tell which notes made the melody.

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.

A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.

Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment producers don't want to spend money on orchestra.

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

The score is in your subconscious. Sit down long enough at a keyboard and it will come out.

Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.

When i want to hear new music, i make it

Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself.

Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.

There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.