Quotes About Composition

As a good housewife out of divers fleeces weaves one piece of cloth, a bee gathers wax and honey out of many flowers, and makes a new bundle of all... I have laboriously collected this Cento out of divers writers, and... I have wronged no authors, but given every man his own.... I can say of myself, Whom have I injured? The matter is theirs most part, and yet mine...

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Never neglect the way you arrange things visually. Factors like color, for example, have enormous symbolic resonance.

Many dinners emerging from the scientific kitchen were entirely white…

We all think we're snowflakes, but we're Tinker Toys, held together by our interchangeable parts. (39)

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I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting. They are unhappy about the current composition of the council.

Perfect typography is more a science than an art.

To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer.

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.

No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10^27 atoms.

As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament.

The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and organisation to composition.

In his imagination he performed the 'composition of place' reconstructing the scene from what he could remember of the classics, so laboriously and unprofitably rammed into his head at Harrow.

I'll admit that writing doesn't always come, but I'm totally against walking around looking at the sky when you're experiencing a block, waiting for inspiration to strike you. Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov didn't like each other and agreed on very few things, but they were of one opinion on this: you had to write constantly. If you can't write a major work, write minor trifles. If you can't write at all, orchestrate something.

on Prokofiev] And, by the way, he never did learn how to orchestrate properly.

I had to write a requiem for all those who died, who had suffered. (...) But how could I do it? I was constantly under suspicion then, and critics counted what percentage of my symphonies was in a major key and what percentage in a minor key. That oppressed me, it deprived me of the will to compose.

The Seventh Symphony had been planned before the war and consequently, it simply cannot be seen as a reaction to Hitler's attack. The 'invasion theme' has nothing to do with the attack. I was thinking of other enemies of humanity when I composed the team.

I do write quickly, that's true, but I think about my music for a comparatively long time, and until it's complete in my head I don't begin setting it down.

I Want To Hold Your Hand' 'I Saw Her Standing There' Voice leading in the Plagal cadence Here is a summary of the action in a IV–I change (in the key of C), highlighting the important 'inner' voice leading.

All music is rehash. There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme'. John Lennon1

For every album we worked on, I brought in reels of tape of somewhere between fourteen and eighteen songs - some of them completed, with lyrics and melodies, some of them basic tracks. Things came out of those products. Like, for 'Hotel California', I think I had a reel with sixteen songs on it.