Quotes About Composition

One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.

I would sit at the organ and just start making up things by myself - I was maybe 7 years old, which was too young to even know how to notate music. So I never wrote anything down, but when I'd make things up, I'd memorize them.

Even though there are some great keyboard players on the album, there are a number of songs with no keyboard on them and the backing is all guitar oriented. This is first time I've ever done this actually.

There are seven notes - Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni no one is original in the world. We have to play around the notes and make our own stuff.

I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.

A song like 'Loyal To Me,' for example, I originally wrote that for a girl band in mind, that's why it has so many harmonies and it's got that sort of '90s/R&B feel to it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.

I think I'm much more of a guitar-songwriter than a singer. I start with chords and then test out melodies rather than improvising over it.

Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image.

I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.

Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.

about parataxis and hypotaxis (they either had something

Whether Mrs Williams liked her daughters at all was doubtful: she loved them, of course, and had 'sacrificed everything for them', but there was not much room in her composition for liking – it was too much taken up with being right

Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.

I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a book, a Judd - and compose them like sentences.

Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

Fill a space in a beautiful way.

The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?

You don't take a photograph, you make it.