Quotes About Composition

I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting.

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.

I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.

The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.

The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share.

I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.

I can't get anything out of an orchestra if I have the 10 best guitarists, but I don't have a pianist or a drummer.

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know the piano. I know everything about music that helps build the music that go along with creating the whole art form, you know what I'm saying?

I would never say I 'play' guitar. But yeah, I play to write. Same with piano.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

When I write, I write the drum beat. Though sometimes I write on piano or guitar.

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff.

I play the piano and write music.

I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I was 7. In fact, I won a composition award. It was a crummy little piece, but I won with it.

I write my own music. By myself, on a computer, I program guitar and piano.

Many people who don't like Rachmaninov's style consider the 'Rhapsody' his masterpiece. It's written fantastically well for orchestra and piano. He combines a lot of effervescence with a deep, Romantic spirit.

If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place.

I always say I make pictures rather than take pictures.