When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. — Dexter Gordon Copy Share Image
Oil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name. — Matthew Shipp Copy Share Image
Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
There's a lot of unconscious activity that goes on I think in the composition of a poem. — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
There is no field other than the weird in which I have any aptitude or inclination for fictional composition. Life has never… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was… — David Salle Copy Share Image
The Smiths hasn't been equaled. That goes for the composition of the songs, the lyrics, and the performance. — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
By the grace of God and with His help, I shall one day be a Liszt in technique and a Mozart in… — Bedrich Smetana Copy Share Image
The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom… — Anton Seidl Copy Share Image
I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
The way I listen to music goes in waves depending on a lot of things. How busy I am, if I'm in… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
As sounds in a musical composition can be used not to express physical objects but ideas, emotions, harmonies, rhythmic orders and most… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
I'm chasing a kind of language that can be unburdened by people's expectations. I think music is the primary model-how close can… — Terrance Hayes Copy Share Image
One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
An expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
My fiction is based on both my own experience transformed, altered, juggled and changed to suit the demands of composition, character, and… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists...… — Paul Laseau Copy Share Image
A composition which dazzles at first sight by gaudy epithets, or brilliant turns or expression, or glittering trains of imagery, may fade… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The biblical authors wrote of God's sovereignty over His world, and of man's experiences within that world, using such modes of speech… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
I will gladly give lessons as a favor, particularly when I see that my student has talent, inclination, and anxiety to learn;… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
It's funny how you can't ask difficult questions in a familiar place, how you have to stand back a few feet and… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Majorities are of two sorts: (1) communal majority and (2) political majority. A political majority is changeable in its class composition. A… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always thinking about how to make cinema, not good… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
