Quotes About Composition

I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

Music is the medium. Words merely enhance the composition.

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

You know, the character of Isabelle in 'Love Crime' is the only character I feel the furthest from. I have nothing to share with her, so it was really difficult. Being an actor of composition is something, but you always base yourself on something you know about.

So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light.

I thought I was gonna get a doctorate in composition or be a composer and be at a university for the rest of my life, mostly because my parents are academics, and that was the logical thing to do.

For one, the whole concept of 'Live From Here' - writing a song every week - was like composition bootcamp.

The challenge for a good musician is to bring out compositions that seem fresh to the listener, even if the listener has heard the song or the composition before.

I don't believe in making two songs similar. Every composition must have its own unique character.

Lyrics is the face of any song. The combination of composition, lyrics and singing is what makes a song a song.

I keep a composition book with me at all times to write rhymes, to write down ideas, write down my thoughts, you know just so I don't forget any ideas.

It was always my dream to do non-film music, where I'm the voice and face of my composition.

One thing that I've often done under the Projectors is build an album from a central conceit.

Why do people compose music? Why do people listen to music? When we go into a concert, we go into a place where we want to experience a sort of ecstasy, to come out of ourselves.

I can't measure up to Homer. His composition has survived for nearly three millennia and remains the world's most beautiful and mournful depiction of war. But the story of the Trojan War does not belong to Homer. The characters he employs were legendary long before he was born.

The Swedish style of songwriting is so mathematical.

A line has to have a certain number of syllables, and the next line has to be its mirror image.

We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony.

I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.

A symphony is no joke.

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and the people we work with.

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.