Quotes About Composition

And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people's flowers, and that of my own I have only provided the string that ties them together.

I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.

I don't love the idea of three superstars coming together to form a dream team, I'd rather teams are built more organically, just as a fan it's more interesting to see.

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

A lot of things come together to make up a song. It's just images.

I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

The one place I've seen something really come together is in editing. Sometimes you can save pieces in a way that you're really shocked.

We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together.

I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.

Type has rhythm, just like music.

The lettering is clean, beautifully proportioned, easily read, and, well, ordered.

scripts: his archive reveals how he even helped write the songs.

There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

I really love writing themes and melody.

I love melodies so it's usually where I start.

Friedrich Cerha

He who says collage says the irrational.

Every writer must bring three major factors to each story that he writes. They are ideas, artistry and craftsmanship.

What's the secret to a great popular song? It must be melodically simple and harmonically attractive.

Godzilla' took two months because it required a two-hour-plus score. 'Imitation Game' was three weeks.