Quotes About Composition

resimde yap?sal bütünlük, imgenin güçlü olmas?n? saÄŸlar.

If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.

I needed another basis for musical structure. This I found in sound's duration parameter, sound's only parameter which is present even when no sound is intended.

The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.

Now we have come to the end of the part about structure. However, it occurs to me to say more about structure.

Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.

Everything that is made of atoms has a density quite close to the density of a single atom given by the mass of an atom divided by its volume.

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.

I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life.

The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it.

The songs came from a more solitary place and I hadn't played them with many people before recording. So I just added the layers of people who are in my life, and built up the songs.

The successful painter is continually painting still life.

attributes. For Aquinas, God is "simple" in the sense of being in no way composed of parts (ST I.3).

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper. the photographer begins with the finished product

Anything more than 500 yds from the car just isn't photogenic.

Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection . . .

Literary work couldn't seriously force the whirlpool of debris that constituted the real into any grammatical or syntactical order.

Over time, writing has come to mean giving shape to a permanent balancing and unbalancing of myself, arranging fragments in a frame and waiting to mix them up.

The theory that composers embody their own feelings in a composition which then transmits those feelings direct to the listener was earlier dismissed as incomplete and unconvincing.

Stravinsky's ideal was to create works in which the personal dimension is eliminated, which is why Constant Lambert condemned his neoclassical work as inhuman and mechanical.

If, by the term elements, we mean to express the simple and indivisible molecules that compose bodies, it is probable that we know nothing about them; but if, on the contrary, we express by the term elements or principles of bodies the idea of the last point reached by analysis, all substances that we have not yet been able to decompose by any means are elements to us.

Mozart was taking 'dictation from God'.