I allow my creativity to push me in directions that are simply interesting to me and I don’t worry about the likeness… — Mark Applebaum Copy Share Image
Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand… — Dexter Gordon Copy Share Image
From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers. — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
A composition is an arrangement, built out of parts, that aims at seamlessness. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
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… — Kip Winger Copy Share Image
Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world. — Toru Takemitsu Copy Share Image
A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
“In the pursuit of greater equality in our education system, from K to PhD, technology access, print literacies, and verbal skill all… — Adam J. Banks Copy Share Image
The artist reserves the right to remove a blot on the landscape, to change positions of things, to suit his composition, providing… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's… — Roy Haynes Copy Share Image
“Certainty' with respect to successful language learning and use--whether oral, written, or technologically mediated combinations--applies less and less to discrete products and… — Jay Jordan Copy Share Image
For my qualifying concert, Helmut Walcha would not coach Charles-Marie Widor or any American compositions. In his defense, his forte was Germanic… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
I believe that everyone, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters; in which case the invention… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
Film composing is a splendid discipline, and I recommend a course of it to all composition teachers whose pupils are apt to… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The challenge for a good musician is to bring out compositions that seem fresh to the listener, even if the listener has… — Ilaiyaraaja 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
