121 Composition Quotes for You to Enjoy

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines. Jane Haddam

Teacher College Magazines College Level Composition Mostly Editor Been Level

I speak English. I grew up speaking Bengali. This is the normal, the known, the obvious composition of who I am. Then there's Italian, this strange, other component of me that I've just created. It was a creative process just to learn the language, never mind to start expressing myself in it. Jhumpa Lahiri

Myself Me Creative Strange Speak Language Creative Process Mind Other Bengali Component Composition Never Obvious Learn Known Am Italian Normal Up Just Grew Process Then Created Speaking English Who Expressing Start

Take '39 Steps'. When I finished writing it, I counted the number of measures in the composition. I always do this because I am interested in the length of a song. So I counted this one a couple of times because 39 is an unusual number of measures for a song. John Abercrombie

Song Writing Finished Composition Take Counted Steps Couple Unusual Because Always Am Times Interested Length Measures Number

Changes in relative ionic concentration across the postsynaptic membrane are readily effected by altering the ionic composition of the external medium. John Eccles

Changes Medium Relative Composition Concentration Altering Readily Effected Across External

Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds? John Philip Sousa

My religion lies in my composition. John Philip Sousa

Religion Lies Composition

With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to serve as a graphic identity. After a number of sketches, I went into my own abstract vernacular of drawn lines and shapes to create the composition for the poster design. John Van Hamersveld

Own Design Drawing Drawn Photograph Poster Composition My Own Could Shapes Abstract Identity Built Vernacular Lines After Sketches Create Use Graphic Serve Larry Portrait Started Number

I've learned that I've just barely scratched the surface of knowledge of the profession, and I have deep envy of and appreciation for filmmakers who really, truly understand the physics, the design of filmmaking. They can do story and color and composition and geometry and math and science all at once. Julie Plec

Knowledge Appreciation Science Physics Envy Design Once Composition Color Learned Understand Surface Geometry Math Math And Science Truly Scratched Just Story Really Barely Who Profession Deep Filmmakers Filmmaking

There's a lot of knowledge in civil engineering about how soils will react when subjected to heavy loads. When you take lightweight vehicles and granular soils of varying composition, it's a very complex modeling process. Karl Iagnemma

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition. Karlheinz Stockhausen

Invention Important Become Musical Composition Most The Most Important Transformations Certain Figures

I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style. Ken Burns

The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further. Kip Winger

Life Me Experience Say Further Life Experience Composition Main Main Thing Studying Combined Go Been Years Much Lessons Thing Four Last

The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978. Lamar Alexander

First Composition Primary Governor Than Different Elected

Women continue receiving less salary for the same kind of job. Women have a higher unemployment rate in our country. When you analyze the composition of poverty, you will find that most of the families in poverty are being run by a woman. Laura Chinchilla

You Woman Women Will Job Poverty Country Analyze Our Kind Run Find Composition Rate Higher Most Continue Salary Unemployment Families Unemployment Rate Same Being Less Receiving

Sonic Youth was not a singer-songwriter band. It was an electric collective. And, whatever else people's perceptions of Sonic Youth were, it was always about putting together a time-based composition - and that is exactly what songwriting is, in its classic form. Lee Ranaldo

Together Youth People Collective Band Whatever Else Exactly Exactly What Classic Composition About Perceptions Songwriting Sonic Sonic Youth Putting Singer-Songwriter Always Were Form Electric

I used a baritone guitar with a very unusual tuning that became the body of the composition, while the classical guitar is on top of it with the main rhythm part. Lee Ritenour

Guitar Top Composition Classical Classical Guitar Main Part Unusual Became Very Tuning Rhythm While Body Baritone Used

You know, the character of Isabelle in 'Love Crime' is the only character I feel the furthest from. I have nothing to share with her, so it was really difficult. Being an actor of composition is something, but you always base yourself on something you know about. Ludivine Sagnier

If I'm doing a story on how a single mother copes in a refugee camp, I'll go to her tent; I'll follow her when she's working, see what her daily life is like, and try to pack that into one composition, with nice light, in one frame. Lynsey Addario

Life Daily Light Mother Try Single Nice Frame Follow See Composition Tent Like She Single Mother How Doing Go Camp Refugee Story Pack Working Daily Life Her

Picasso's superhuman gift for draftsmanship might have made him lazy about pursuing the full potential of color. It was not unusual for him to build a composition by first outlining figures and objects in black and then filling the interstices in a perfunctory manner that can put one in mind of a museum-shop coloring book. Martin Filler

Book Gift Mind Black Made First Build Composition About Superhuman Objects Outlining Potential Color Pursuing Coloring Lazy Picasso Put Him Unusual Might Then Manner Full Full Potential Figures Filling

A lot of my favourite songs have Eno involved, but I love the work he does on the first two Roxy Music albums. He's creating atmospheres as opposed to composition, and it's a beautiful mixture with everything else in that band. Matt Berry

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition. Matthew Modine

Me Age Light Father Value Young Composition Learned Very Essential Essential Elements Taught Young Age Paint Elements Watercolors

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