Quotes About Composition

I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don't think about it that way, but music is actually dialogue. And sometimes music is the final, finished, additional dialogue. Music can be one of the final characters in the film.

In most multiple composer situations, you find it because someone got nervous about the music and insisted that somebody else come in and help.

I call architecture frozen music.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.

'Raaga' is one of those movies which is very special for any music director to compose music for.

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically, both have nothing in common.

I try to tell a story musically in a song.

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.

I like to compose, but only for myself. I write my own lyrics and compose the music around them.

I hear music as narrative.

An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.

I started out writing music for theatre and contemporary dance, so there has always been a dramatic and narrative element in my music.

Writing for a film means the music has to serve the film, the narrative.

It is not easy to properly position and structure a book, not to mention to do the actual writing.

Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.

This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of a golden mountain.

Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness.

Çünkü güzelliÄŸi yaratan, üç ÅŸeyin uyumudur: her ÅŸeyden önce, bütünlük ya da yetkinlik - bu yüzden yetkin olmayan ÅŸeylere çirkin deriz; sonra gerekli orant? ya da uyum; son olarak da ayd?nl?k ve ???k; gerçekten de rengi aç?k seçik olan nesnelere güzel deriz.

Humanity is identity. All men are the same clay. No difference, here below at least, in predestination. The same darkness before, the same flesh during, the same ashes after life. But ignorance, mixed with the human composition, blackens it. This incurable ignorance possesses the heart of man, and there becomes evil.

But who among us is perfect? Even the greatest strategists have their eclipses, and the greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, 'That is all there was!' But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.