Quotes About Composition

En philosophie se confirme une expérience que Schönberg nota à propos de la théorie traditionnelle de la musique : on n'y a pprend vraiment que la façon dont un mouvement commence et se termine, rien sur lui-même, sur son développement. De manière analogue, il faudrait que la philosophie ne se ramène pas à des catégories mais en un certain sens qu'elle se mette à composer.

People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed – a knife – a purse – and a dark lane. Design, gentlemen, grouping, light and shade, poetry, sentiment, are now deemed indispensable to attempts of this nature.

People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed - a knife - a purse - and a dark lane...

Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea is confirmed by the difference between the 'Soave sia il vento' and 'Kentucky Woman.' We have different words for 'art' and 'idea' because they are two different things.

It's great to compose music just for my own enjoyment, but that I have been able to make a lot of new friends, have shows everywhere, and get to know so many places all thanks to music is impressive to me.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

During the day I'll work on music. I have a sampler and a drum machine out with me and I write new songs while we're on the road.

The scientist is also a composer... You could think of science as discovering one particular thing - a supernova or whatever. You could also think of it as discovering this whole new way of seeing the world.

Songwriting is an art distinct from poetry.

My genius, if I can call it that, is to combine a whole load of averageness into one compact frame.

He was singing a song he had composed entirely without professional assistance.

Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way.

Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.

a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.

Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.

Now all the candles were lit, and the faces on both sides of the table were brought nearer by the candle light, and composed, as they had not been in the twilight, into a party round a table

It is not the parts that matter, it is their combinations.

Disputes over the crew's composition and pay bedeviled Magellan until the moment of the fleet's departure from Seville.

Tutta l'arte è un problema di equilibrio fra due opposti.

And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may read in the feeble shining of this earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it.

And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyze the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may read in the feeble shining of this earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

The details are not the details. They make the design.

If the sentence is the most important unit of writing, the paragraph comes a close second place. All writing is a march of paragraphs, each of which provides a clear step forward in the progress of the piece.