Quotes About Composition

The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

All of a sudden it hit me - if there was such a thing as composing music, there could be such a thing as composing motion. After all, there are melodic figures, why can't there be figures of motion?

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated.

Rests always sound well.

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

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

It takes more talent to write music, but it takes more courage to write lyrics.

Music is organized sound.

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

I guess I think of a musical as something in which the music is sort of like the engine of the piece - whether it is in the theatre or in film.

Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.

Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing.

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.

If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.