Quotes About Composition

The soundtrack for 'Mr. Fraud' is classical with a decent level of fusion.

I like soundtracks and I like film.

I always create book soundtracks to capture the overall mood I'm going for and listen to them as I write. Those songs and scores really fuse with the scenes in my mind.

A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

If there are 60,000 blue marbles and 40,000 red marbles in a giant urn, then the most likely composition of a sample of 100 marbles drawn randomly from the urn would be 60 blue marbles and 40 red marbles.

some might have 62 blue marbles and 38 red marbles, or 58 blue and 42 red. But the chances of drawing any random sample that deviates hugely from the composition of marbles in the urn are very, very low.

The sheer size of the country, the mixed ethnic, religious, and racial composition of the people, and the diffuseness of power under our federal system have all tended to blunt or minimize citizen-versus-state conflicts and to throw citizen-versus-citizen conflicts into high relief.

I make work a bit like how you mix cocktails - with ingredients like budget, history and location.

Ethnically I am a mix of many, many, many things.

When you try to build a team, you need a mix of talent.

I don't listen to much modern composition.

I try to have a mood or a rhythm for a chapter.

Every song has a mood, a situation and a different kind of score.

Being the composer of 'Minecraft' is basically like imagining the distance between earth and moon.

One of the most beautiful things that recruited me to join the LaRouche movement is its emphasis on Classical singing and composition, especially with the Negro Spirituals, adding a new depth of profundity to songs I had sang while growing up.

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.

T]he greater the sense of awe with which a text was regarded, the more complete might be the amnesia as to the original circumstances of its composition.

an orchestra is unified not because all the instruments are the same, but because the different instruments are playing the same song. They are using their unique sounds to create beautiful harmonic textures.

When asked about his photographic techniques, Arthur "Weegee" Fellig, a photojournalist from the 30s and 40s, answered, "f/8 and be there.

And when I say "think," I want you to think about the subject, the location, the perspective, the lighting, the timing, the weather, the mood, the pose, the clothes, the expression, the composition, and yes, the camera settings. That's a lot to absorb

Ãœber dieser Fuge, wo der Name B A C H im Contrasubject angebracht worden, ist der Verfasser gestorben

I know better than most men that she is a conglomerate of skin, blood, tissue, bones, muscles and nerves, but only look how nicely arranged.