Quotes About Composition

I love the power of the musician who composes and performs. I envy their ability to put a nugget of truth in three minutes of sweat and emotional outpouring, colored entirely from their thoughts.

You can't sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you're doing it all by yourself. Obviously, there's something going on here. And whether you want to call it channeling or being connected to a creative force or knowing your history and knowing where you belong, that's, you know, maybe a personal thing.

Nowadays you don't get to see composition in a movie because nobody ever keeps the camera still long enough to see it. Actors don't have the thrill and the power of working with space.

Many composers today don't know what the human throat is.

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

Having good style really just means having a decisive eye and being able to put things together in an aesthetically pleasing manner. It's not a matter of spending a lot of money and throwing it all together.

Songs come to me and I hear them. At least in part, they are very complete; I hear the whole chorus, including the drum pattern, the base, the countermelody, the basic harmonic structure and the main thrust of the lyric.

One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.

Chemistry is the science of atoms. Elaborating on Democritus' idea, chemists learn how atoms stick or don't stick together, thus forming molecules.

Music is one of the last elements in the creative process. It can and hopefully should tie a bow around an artistic concept, how a story moves forward, the pace of that storytelling.

When you walk around the property, everything ties up together and looks good. That is the main goal as a designer.

Most film teams usually come with a tight deadline, which doesn't leave us much time to compose.

Un médico sin medicinas es como un pianista sin piano.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

ESSAY -- A loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition.

Trochee trips from long to short;From long to long in solemn sortSlow Spondee stalks.

A poem is that species of composition, which is opposed to works of science, by proposing for its immediate object pleasure, not truth; and from all other species (having this object in common with it) it is discriminated by proposing to itself such delight from the whole, as is compatible with a distinct gratification from each component part.

A poem of any length neither can be, or ought to be, all poetry.

Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for more time two days before its due.

In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.

Remember: a story is not a vignette. It has a beginning, middle and an end. It is not merely a snapshot in time.

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time.

A composer's job involves the decoration of fragments of time.