Quotes About Composition

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.

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

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.

Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.

Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange that song so it doesn't get repetitious.

I've been a list maker for years, even before I was a musician. I was always writing things down and kept long lists of things that would make good album titles and things like that. I'm constantly thinking in terms of songwriting.

You have all these song titles and song time, and you put it in a certain order, and you slap a cover on it. That's a record. That's how I've seen all my records.

Because of their chemical composition e-cigarettes are at least as harmful to your health as regular tobacco cigarettes are.

The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.

For a menu to come together, you have to have sweetness, saltiness, crunchiness... it's all about balance.

It's easy to make an album full of great songs. But I want people to go for the ride. The songs have to make sense together.

I just kind of, like, put stuff together. I don't really try to make it seem like a 'look.'

People were made up of shit and piss and phlegm and bits and pieces of experience.

Think of this as a short book composed entirely of what I hoped would be a long book's quotable passages.

Like the size and composition of a work, the walk and talk of an artist has to persuade, not just others but the performers themselves. Whether they have colorful, large-scale personas or minimal, low-key selves, believable artists are always protagonists, never secondary characters who inhabit stereotypes. For this reason, I see artists' studios as private stages for the daily rehearsal of self-belief.

If P is a presheaf on C and x E P(C), the value for an arrow f : D -* C in C is called the restriction of x along f, and is often denoted by I or by a dot:

The natural world creates great beauty every day, yet the only rules of composition it follows are those of function and chance.

Ly" adverbs slow down the sentence and often foil the writer's intent.

A substantial fraction of the atoms in the body of a typical physicist were once in the form of pizza.)

I think the melody is the first time I hear in a song and if I like the melody, then I'll pay closer attention to the lyrics.

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.

I've always liked using flutes and clarinets. Any time I can use those, I'm really happy.

I don't think in time signatures, and when I do, what I write is generally 3/4 or 4/4, the most basic, straightforward stuff. I think that comes from just not being a super-schooled musician.