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Quotes About Composition

SONG. . . . BY TOAD. (Composed by himself.) OTHER COMPOSITIONS. BY TOAD will be sung in the course of the evening by the. . . COMPOSER.
~ Kenneth Grahame
It was perhaps the most conceited song that any animal ever composed. 'The world has held great Heroes
~ Kenneth Grahame
Her vedlægges nu et par dusing skille-tegn som du selv må sitte til hist og her i brevet!
~ Knut Hamsun
because human lives are composed in precisely such a fashion. They are composed like music
~ Kundera Milan
I composed it myself! said the Fiddler Crab. But it's highly classical, I admit. All really great music is an acquired taste.
~ L. Frank Baum
A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor.
~ Sean Covey
And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.
~ James Payn
What difficulties our predecessors had in making music! They were able to compose only by bringing themselves to attacks of inspiration, an extinct form of epilepsy.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
~ Yoko Ono
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.
~ Yoko Ono
A seu tempo, os algoritmos podem aprender a compor músicas do início ao fim, usando as emoções humanas como se fossem teclas num piano. Com base nos nossos dados biométricos, os algoritmos até podem produzir melodias personalizadas de que só nós, no mundo inteiro, é que gostamos.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
The purpose of art, including literature, is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it.
~ zamyatin yevgeny iii
The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.
~ zamyatin yevgeny iv
I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.
~ Debbie Allen
He has suggested that we eliminate the word art and replace it with work.
~ Debbie Millman
Art lies, to tell the truth. Flowers from different seasons bloom impossibly together. Trees are shifted around in the landscape to frame the composition. Rooms are created like stage sets, furnished with the artist's own possessions, where models are arranged in a speechless moment of drama.
~ Deborah Moggach
One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.
~ William Zinsser
I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.
~ Werner Herzog
Light is the most important person in the picture.
~ Claude Monet
I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else.
~ Giorgio Morandi
We are playwrights in that we spontaneously compose and direct dialogue, acting out various roles of a nurturer, an authority, or a character from a client's life.
~ Jeffrey A. Kottler
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.
~ Elmore Leonard
El sempre es compon de molts ares.
~ Emily Dickinson