Quotes About Composition

To study both people and things is to study the lines they are made of.

It's not about the ingredients, it's about the formula for combining those ingredients.

word choice and ordering (diction and syntax). He

Even when not in the act of writing Muscatine a letter, I was often composing one in my mind, situating the words just so, plunking one here, then one there, gauging how to sound worthy of his regard.

Le persone sono come le parole. Da sole non significano niente, diventano belle se le metti bene insieme.

I think I compose as a listener: improvising and listening back excites me because I get to ideas that never would have occurred. Then I bring in the computers and samplers... and I begin to loop and process and change them.

I've always been attracted to odd chord changes and interesting melodies.

To me, part of the beauty of a comma is that it offers a rest, like one in music: a break that gives the whole piece of music greater shape, deeper harmony. It allows us to catch our breath.

I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.

Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.

Composing for movies is not an easy job - its a different art altogether, and moreover, I don't want to get involved in too many things at one time and want to concentrate on my shows and albums.

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it's ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score that happened a year or two earlier.

In my opinion, an album has a story from start to finish and has a concrete concept.

A book is either nicely written or it's badly written. That's it.

Wij mensen zijn dan ook gehard en tehen veel bestand, een wezenlijk bewijs van dat waaruit wij zijn geschapen.

We see similar thinking in managers who feel you can just throw a group of people together and hope that a team will form. If the right people luckily end up in the group, if the chemistry is just right, and if the situation is perfect, a team might develop.

Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor along with

Color cannot stand alone.

You can have music and it will stand alone by itself, but you can't have a movie without it.

Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?

the fine or composition-money for killing a king was 30,000 thrimsas ($13,000);

the most heroic symphony is a judicious combination of puffing, plucking, scraping, and beating.

Writing is one-third imagination, one-third experience, and one third observation.