Quotes About Composition

You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.

Look at the piano. You'll notice that there are white notes and black notes. Figure out the difference between them and you'll be able to make whatever kind of music you want.

When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize.

I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.

In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.

I'm interested in producing truncated shapes in proportion to the frame and composition, shapes that are preferably luminous. I'm not interested in the full-figure. I want to abstract forms.

Just because everybody uses language, that doesn't mean that they can write even tolerable prose.

Composite Simpler Than the Sum of Its Parts The API of a composite object should not be more complicated than that of any of its components.

For each shot, the cinematographer decides how large the subject should be in the frame.

To minimize this, keep actors away from walls, place them against dark rather than light walls, position furniture or props to break up the shadows, and use diffusion to soften secondary lights.

In general, using a brighter, harder light from a greater distance away from the action will result in more even illumination than a softer unit closer to the subject.

When panning or tracking with a moving subject, it's usually a good idea to let him walk out of frame at the end of the shot to provide more options in editing.

When you write for an orchestra, the sky's the limit.

I like... piecing things together because it gives you a product that you would never have come up with just sitting down and writing on a blank slate.

There's always been a slight twinge of some classical elements in our music.

You can't slot a time and a space and think 'ok now it's time to sit and compose.' It just doesn't work like that for me.

Chopin was a master of melody, harmony and voice leading - the art of smoothly moving from chord to chord.

I don't think I approach my songs differently from other artists. You get a big picture of it, and you imagine the song and hear and feel it, and that big picture is like a snapshot, and it comes to you as fast as it takes to click a camera.

'Barsaat' is a romantic love song penned by Rashmi Virag. It is a song very close to my heart - that's why we plan to release it first. Actually over so many years, whenever I used to make a composition it would get selected for a movie. This time I was very determined to release it as an independent album and didn't give it for movies.

The Europa Clipper is scheduled for launch sometime around 2022. Costing approximately $2 billion, its purpose is to analyze the ice cover of Europa and the composition and nature of its ocean for signs of organic chemicals.

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.

This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agree, but only on condition that you refrain from reading such notions as fictive, fabricated, and untrue to life into the word novelistic. Because human lives are composed in precisely such a fashion.

Human lives are conmposed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence into a motif, which then assumes a permanent place in the composition of an individual's life.

Mientras que las personas son jóvenes y la composición musical de su vida está aún en los primeros compases, pueden escribirla juntas e intercambiarse motivos, pero cuando se encuentran y ya son mayores, sus composiciones musicales están más o menos cerradas y cada palabra, cada objeto significa una cosa distinta en la composición de la una y en la de la otra