Quotes About Composition

I don't study films particularly. I plan to direct, but I'm not watching film - I watch the entire film to see how the story goes, but I don't say, 'Oh, so he does a slow pan here, or he pulls here, watch the crane shot, or look at the composition,' because it's got to be my eye.

I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.

There are so many factors that one needs to keep in mind while composing for a film. Every movie is different and demands a separate approach. Originality also plays an important role.

I had a really pleasant time composing music for 'Raaga.'

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually entering it in the score, the more pleasing will be his composition when given life through musical instruments.

Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided.

I always wanted to, at some point, sit down and consider how to plot out one piece of work, one album, from start to finish.

Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music.

I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.

The main thing a poem ought to be is musical. It should be rhythmic. You should hear it as a musical piece in your head as you're writing it.

I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.

I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

Poetry is composing for the breath.

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

Consider your house from an aesthetic point of view.

My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.

I write songs; I record them. When I get enough, and it seems like a coherent piece, I call it an album.

Every art I do is a collage.

I collect paint like I collect sound. And then I use layers, layers, layers.

I like it when two sounds complement each other but are way different on a record.

I compose for the common man, for our epoch.