Quotes About Composition

Same old notes, Blanche thinks at one point, but arranged into unfamiliar music.

grammar will tell you how to write; but whether to write or not, grammar will not tell.

sixty-dozen arrangements

None of the canonical Gospels provides an explicit date of composition. Paul, who likely died during Nero's persecution of Christians in Rome in 64 ce, never mentions the Gospels, and most scholars agree that the canonical Gospels postdate him.

The image - its plastic composition and the way it is set in time, because it is founded on a much higher degree of realism - has at its disposal more means of manipulating reality and of modifying it from within. The film-maker is no longer the competitor of the painter and the playwright, he is, at last, the equal of the novelist

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.

remedial work needed? It often is. In my introductory political science classes, I encounter far too many students who cannot write coherently. I would like to think this is being remedied in composition courses, since without that competence they can't do college-level work. But it's quite another thing to say that all undergraduates need advanced algebra to proceed toward their degrees.

We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group was really a band in the sense of something I could write for.

Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.

Musical harmony is based on physical principles, while in cooking, ingredients must be weighed out with precision. At the same time, you have to be able to invent because if one follows the same recipe all the time, you never create anything new.

We are over 60 percent water by weight. We're just a big ball of... blob of water, with enough organic thickener added so we don't dribble away on the floor.

One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.

Well, being fit is not about flaunting muscles or biceps. Being fit is about flexibility and fit is about flexibility and body composition.

In order to become a well-rounded musician, you have to master the three major aspects of guitar playing: the technical side, the musical side and the creative side.

There was never a day at West Point where I didn't ask myself, 'Where would I put the camera?'

Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

So, essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me.

I've always preferred being behind the camera.

I first thought maybe I'd do a banjo presentation record, where I'd play a couple of songs and get a bunch of other players to do the rest. Then I realized I had enough of my own songs to do an album of them.

Conceptually, I've always gravitated towards arrangements that weren't just presenting one idea. I like to look at my songs as having a main part, an interlude, and almost like another song at the end.

With 'Under the Pressure,' I just found two chords I liked, and built it up, did like a ten-minute drum pattern.

Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.

I've done some scoring in the past, but I want to get into it on a bigger level - a Danny Elfman level.