Quotes About Composition

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

I want music to move me, and I don't think it can do that without at least a link to tonality. It's the tug between atonal and tonal which makes music poignant.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

A good theme - like the 'Pink Panther' or 'Baby Elephant Walk' - can work all the way through the picture, which is what I did with them. So, for me, a good melody is not just a pretty tune.

A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of the American popular song.

The art of sewing lyrics with the tune is very interesting as a music director.

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem.

When it comes to our 'Jai ho,' the song became a super hit because of the composition of Rahman... He made the tune.

Computers can be taught that certain tune or certain chords changes will sound pleasant together, but I don't think it's going to reach a point where a machine will generate ideas and styles.

It is hard work composing a song for a film and showing it to makers: 50% of the tune remains the same, and the remaining 50% is changed to suit the script.

Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear.

Mozart had a tremendously fertile and creative ear for a catchy tune.

Look, when a song becomes a hit, it happens because of its tune and melody, and not for the lyrics in the first place.

The lute is tuned differently than the guitar and of course it has many more strings.

When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise.

I think a lot of tunes can suffer from being so simple, so either they get over-complicated or their simplicity means the simple way to lay them down becomes the difficulty.

There are a million good tunes.

The way jazz works is that we take a theme, and then we write using the same structure, same chord changes, and then we can do different tunes.

Our tunes aren't just sing-along tunes: they're very complex. After a few days of that, you gotta take a break.

When you put a book together and arrange it, there's a lot of anxiety and turmoil about what order the poems should be in.

Film directing has perfected my theater directing. I think when I first started directing, a lot of my stuff was very lateral; I was afraid to have the actors' backs turned away, afraid to put them too far upstage, and I think once I did more things with film, I got more interested in composition.

The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.

I think often times if a guitar riff is centered around the chorus or if it follows the chorus, then it often times turns into the actual hook.

I think a melody is a melody. And the way I usually start is I start writing my themes without even writing to picture to just try to find the tone for the movie or the TV show.