Quotes About Composition

Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.

A long time ago a very powerful race of Indians lived here. They were from another cycle; their being was of another composition. They are still here, even now, you can see them on the mountain rims.

In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time.

Arranging is sort of the most exciting part of making music right now for me. I really enjoy the process of arranging because you're given all the time that you need to decide on every single note.

I enjoy the process of composing music. The first time I hear a song, it has to bring a smile to my lips. You have to tap your feet and be able to sing the song.

Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.

Fashion has always been a repetition of ideas, but what makes it new is the way you put it together.

Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.

Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.

Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create affects the audience.

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.

It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.

If you view your life as a piece of fabric or a tapestry, the photography is the stitching. It keeps everything together.

Sculpture is a series of 3-dimensional shapes which, while fitting together, cause the perception of lines to the viewer, even where they do not exist.

I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.

Every word is part of a picture, Every sentence is a picture. All you have to do is link them together.

Look, when you are starting to put something together, you want the pudding to come out good. You're trying to put in the right ingredients.

I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts.

My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.

In the creative act, you kind of reach down and look for things that will, when put together, create an emotional effect.