Quotes About Composition

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

I don't sit inside the studio all the time. I travel around researching music.

There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.

How do you photograph a gadget in a new, and not boring, way? You have to get away from people sitting in front of a computer. You have to get a look at the digital signature.

Just by nature, we're always filled with so many ideas and want to cram as many ideas into a song as we can, and I think that gave us a lot of our signature sound.

I like to have space between the notes. I like to use silence.

Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.

When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don't usually come up with a similar kind of thing.

When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a photo in real life.

In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.

I look at making a record and being in a recording studio as more of a craft; You have to be so much more careful and play simpler.

On our single sheet of foolscap we've got the Big Beats. Now what? Fill in the gaps. David Lean famously declared that a feature film should have seven or eight major sequences. That's a pretty good guideline for our play, our album, our State of the Union address.

the script and heard the score

There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.

There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combination of these five give rise to more melodies that can ever be heard.

There are only five primary colours,13 but when blended, their shades and hues are limitless.

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laid out the quill, ink, sand, and paper.

Para ser legítima como arte, la fotografía debe cultivar la noción del fotógrafo como auteur, y de que todas las fotografías realizadas por el mismo individuo configuran un corpus.

painting. Carefully, I took down the goat, the chicken, and me and

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

We don't ever write stuff individually and say, 'OK, this is gonna be the song.' We bring in ideas in their rawest form and bounce them around to find the thing that is bigger than any individual's idea.

People who come up through life or literature the hard way must inevitably carry their scars with them into composition.