Quotes About Composition

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.

I have a degree in music, yeah, from the University of Montana. I studied voice and composition and conducting and all that.

We had a nine-piece choir on 'Aw Yeah.'

In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.

When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.

The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing.

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

Britain's done a lot of changing in the past 50 years. The decline of manufacturing and heavy industry under Margaret Thatcher ripped the economic heart out of huge swathes of the country, and dramatically transformed class composition.

MIDI made a natural transition to the PC. The MIDI messages that make up a musical composition can be saved as MIDI files, which are collections of MIDI messages with timing information.

Music is an intrinsic part of life; therefore, it is important to transport different forms of artistic expression, science, and mathematics into compositions.

If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.

Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground.

Professor Milligan will now play his tree! The composition is in A Minor, the tree is in A garden.

Most trees were made of wood, and so were the rest.

his jest implies: "Anybody who wants to be a real musician must be able to set even a menu to music.

Don't work bit by bit, but paint everything at once by placing tones everywhere. —CAMILLE PISSARRO

The analysts try in vain to conceal the fact that they do not deduce: they combine, they compose ... when they do arrive at the truth they stumble over it after groping their way along.

It was a lot more wide open as to what a song was," Ranaldo says. "A song was a lot more about sound and structure than it was about chords and progressions and stuff like that.

If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.

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