121 Composition Quotes for You to Enjoy

So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light. Matthew Modine

Beautiful Light Face Top Composition About Open Put Camera Up Thing

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation. Maurice Ravel

Single Intuition Composition Raven Clear Perfection Towards Make Equation Inevitability Mathematical Cell Precision Intention Moved Regard Found Here Chance

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. Maury Yeston

Music Writing Own Pretty Composition My Own Fact Piano Crummy Piece Won In Fact Little Much Little Piece Award Started Playing

The sound itself, the production, is of such great importance that it has become an integrated part of the composition. Max Martin

Great Become Composition Part Importance Sound Integrated Itself Production

No one has the Houdini school of composition. Morton Feldman

School Composition No-One Houdini

Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear. Nancy Gibbs

Together Fear Musical Composition Horror Perfectly Like Sorrow Instruments Terror Effect Tune Create Many Works Playing Desired

We don't want to be Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones. That type of thing wasn't what we were after. It was most important for each of us to be equal in input and output - each of us has to pull the same amount, musically, in composition and in every sense of being in the band. Neil Peart

Important Band Sense Every Type Input Musically Composition Output Most Equal Were Mick Jagger Same Rolling Stones Rolling Stones Jagger Being Want After Us Each Thing Amount Pull

The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language. Perhaps no two men will express the same sentiment in the same manner and by the same words; neither do they connect precisely the same ideas with the same words. Oliver Ellsworth

Words Language Will Men Sentiment Every Indefinite Charge Neither Composition Brought Imperfection Arises Perhaps Ideas Ambiguous Same Precisely May Human Being Against Manner Connect Express Necessarily Two

The lives of most authors - even, or perhaps especially, the great ones - are necessarily a catalogue of tedious inwardness and cloistered composition. Globe-trotting Hemingways and brawling Christopher Marlowes are the exception, not the rule. Paul Di Filippo

Great Christopher Rule Composition Great Ones Exception Catalogue Perhaps Most Authors Even Lives Necessarily Tedious

The Republican Party is a composition of the members of the party and not just the leadership. Paul Manafort

Leadership Party Members Composition Just Republican Republican Party

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. Robert Hall

History Unity Composed Composition General Gives Delightful Individual Attention Concentrated Perhaps Most Materials Wanting Literary Which Species Biography

As a director, the biggest job is to discern the imperfections in emotional tone and then view it in the global picture of what you're trying to do, if that makes sense. It's a rhythm, like music is a rhythm or composition and art is a rhythm. Dialogue is a rhythm as well. Robert Stromberg

When I first heard the song 'Eruption,' which is Eddie Van Halen's most famous solo composition, I was confused because it sounded incredible, but I didn't know what it was. I didn't know if it was a guitar. I didn't know if it was a synthesizer or a keyboard. I couldn't figure it out. Robert Trujillo

As I started to study old blues recordings and really pay attention to my favorites, it really started to come to me that all of my favorite pieces of music weren't produced, they were performed. The producer is nearly invisible: no thumbprint other than the composition and the performers. Rodney Crowell

Music Me Old Pay Pay Attention Other Favorite Favorites Composition Recordings Attention Study Invisible Performed Performers Come Pieces Were Than Blues Produced Producer Really Nearly Started

I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition. Rohinton Mistry

Music School Wife Met Classes Composition Voice Both Piano Piano Lessons Taking She Doing Were Where Theory Lessons

You have to know composition to be a good improviser. Roscoe Mitchell

Good You Composition Know Improviser

What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music. Roscoe Mitchell

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