Quotes About Composition

This symmetrical composition--the same motif appears 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.

?ovjek i ne znaju?i komponira svoj život prema zakonima ljepote i u trenutcima najdubljeg bezna?a.

L'uomo, spinto dal senso della bellezza, transforma un avvenimento casuale (la musica di Beethoven, una morte alla stazione) in un motivo che va poi a iscriversi nella composizione della sua vita. Ad esso ritorna, lo ripete, lo varia, lo sviluppa, lo traspone, come fa il compositore con i temi della sua sonata.

Fintantoché le persone sono giovani e la composizione musicale della loro vita è ancora alle prime battute, essi possono scriverla in comune e scambiarsi i temi [...], ma quando si incontrano in età più matura, la loro composizione musicale è più o meno completa, e ogni parola, ogni oggetto, significano qualcosa di diverso nella composizione di ciascuno.

While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.

I've never had a band with more than 3 people (meaning only two string players), so I love having the ability for 3-part polyphony.

I love putting the music together. It's like art

In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.

proportioned.

To survive is to kindle the search for why survival matters. Technicians inevitably become philosophers. Or scientists. Or theologians. Or writers. Or composers. Or musicians. Or artists. Or poets. Or devotees of thousands of variations and combinations of systems of thought and creative expression that promise insight into the very questions that gnaw at our insides long after our stomachs are full.

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

Could my fondness for materials have something to do with the fact the I am made chiefly of them?

Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.

as well balanced as an upturned pyramid.

To see the yellow fritillaries burst forth after the deep snows of winter and know that the bears are soon to follow is to be attentive to wild nature's seasonal fugue of infinite composition and succession. The great gray owl sitting on a snag near Sawmill Ponds is not simply a bird but a heightened intelligence with golden eyes behind a mask of feathers.

I'm always interested in writing. I keep music in journals on an everyday basis. I'm always looking for ideas that can be music.

To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.

For me, what people generally call sound design is just one component of orchestrating a score.

I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.

I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.

I like to start with an idea, but then again, I might be sitting at the keyboard, and just playing a bunch of chords that sound cool together, and something just inspires an idea from that.

But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?

I've always wanted to have keyboards in the band.

I love to be able to put my hands on a keyboard, to have a guitar and a bass within reach, as well as all the effects.