Quotes About Composition

Generally speaking, exoplanets can be any size, and they are found in a wide range of orbits. Some have massive gas atmospheres; others are smaller with an icy or rocky composition.

What I like about 'Game of Thrones' is that there's such a wide range. We have everything from very small, just solo instrument pieces, just the solo violin or solo cello, and then we go all the way to these bigger action moments.

The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights.

I studied fine arts, and color and composition was always my thing, but I've never been too wild with my fashion.

There's always the temptation, as a cinematographer, to make the shot look as perfect as possible.

So, it ended up being what you have there, seven songs brand new and ten live songs which is a good mix.

You tend to compose things more in the middle of frame in 3-D than you would in a conventional frame. You can really see composition in 2-D but in 3-D your composition is much more complex. Everything has to be artificially enhanced. But you do gain something else with 3-D: you have a sense of space and heightened reality.

If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the background it out of focus. You know, it's just a mush.

Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.

Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.

When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.

I have a tendency to postpone starting a piece until it's kicked around in my head a little bit.

A lot of my music tends to combine electronics and orchestra.

I equate composing with orchestrating. I think my music in terms of an orchestra.

I had a musician friend once tell me that it's not in the orchestra that you get the true test of the musicians but in the little trios and quintets where you really get to see if they've got the stuff. And the composer.

A musician's true talent is only tested through background music.

Bones aren't made of calcium Here's what bones are made of: • Calcium • Zinc • Potassium • Selenium • Magnesium • Boron • Manganese • Phosphorus • Silica • Sulfur • Iron • Chromium • And traces of 64 other minerals. That's what bones are made of, a total of 76 ionizing minerals.

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

was tucked into his dark blue trousers. He was small for his age, a lean and supple youth. Wind and sun had weathered the boy's face. The warm color of his skin, his white teeth and dark eyes, the dark trousers merging into the darkness of the corridor behind him: it was all a chance composition of perfect light and shadow.

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Ormus liked to compose his own songs up on the flat roof of the apartment block, and spent eternities up there, lost within himself, searching for the points at which his inner life intersected the life of the greater world outside, and calling those points of intersection songs.

I think my strength is in shaping a song - you know, making it feel like it reaches its peaks and valleys, and ends when it should end.

to a happy man, a prayer is a monotonous composition, void of meaning, until the day when suffering deciphers the sublime language through which the poor victim addresses God.

I let the story out slowly; I knew from all the reading I'd done that was the best way to tell a tale, start far away from the center, but know where that center is at all times.