Quotes About Composition

I've tried writing darker, more serious songs, but they don't go anywhere. Everything revolves around the chorus for me.

Usually composers need a reason to write. I need a deadline.

Even though we didn't actually record it as the Move I had already written a song called 'Dear Elaine', which I subsequently put on the Boulders album. I thought at the time that was probably the best song I'd written.

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

I got my degree in rhetoric.

It's very demanding to make up your own music.

I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.

The details are not the details. They make the design.

I had a talent for scoring films. I just developed it.

I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.

I love auditioning on tape because you have the time and the freedom to work on it, a little bit. A lot of film is slightly dependent on what your composition is and what your lighting is.

A song can go a million different ways once you first get it down on tape.

So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.

It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that's my taste in music - my taste in chord progressions and melodies.

If you can't taste an ingredient, you have to ask yourself why it is there.

My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.

Maybe I should get back to the music-writing phase and write one on tax reform.

So, immediately after that, I got a commission to write a piece for chamber orchestra, and in working on the material I discovered it was possible to incorporate the Buddhist teachings into the music, so that's what I started to do.

A sher is made of two poetical lines bearing a complete meaning.

On dividing a sher into six parts starting from the beginning to end, all the parts are known as ---sadar, hashu, urooz, ibtada, hashu and zarab.

well formed. 'Angi', Graham's most famous composition, first appeared on 3/4 AD, a 1961 Topic EP split with blues guitarist Alexis Korner. Based around a deceptively easy four-chord sequence, the plucking right hand appears to do the work of a jazz trio, the thumb maintaining a steady bass pulse while the rest of the fingers tweak out the tune's ruminative syncopations. Combined

Any photographer can tell you that lighting makes the difference in a photo. It takes an artist to make the light work with a photo.

A whole made of good images can be detestable.

Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.