Quotes About Composition

I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

Music as social glue, as a self-empowering change agent, is maybe more profound than how perfectly a specific song is composed or how immaculately tight a band is.

The performing musician was now expected to write and create for two very different spaces: the live venue, and the device that could play a recording or receive a transmission. Socially and acoustically, these spaces were worlds apart. But the compositions were expected to be the same!

Earth, for example, is made up of oxygen (almost 50 percent) and smaller amounts of iron (19 percent), silicon (14 percent), magnesium (12.5 percent)

But where the ideas of morality and decency alter from one age to another, and where vicious manners are described, without being marked with the proper character of blame and disapprobation, this must be allowed to disfigure the poem, and to be a real deformity. I cannot, nor is it proper I should, enter into such sentiments; and however I may excuse the poet, on account of the manners of age, I can never relish the composition.

You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.

God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen.

[Our] plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms...so that the Word of God may be among the people also in the form of music.

Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.

There is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and... Photoshop

A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.

But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.

Bad weather makes for good photography.

All good art is abstract in its structure.

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.

Good writing is formed partly through plan and partly through accident.

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.

It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.