I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing. — Yann Tiersen Copy Share Image
You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them. — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia. — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability... — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The way we see is critical to understanding how others will read our compositions. — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles. — Horace Silver Copy Share Image
At the age of 11, I started composing and my first composition was sung by my father. — Bappi Lahiri Copy Share Image
Usually I'm thinking about the palette. I'm thinking about the color for the most part, then I'll start thinking about composition and… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not… — Henri Rabaud Copy Share Image
Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
I've always had money because of my early success with Cream, so I tell young musicians to aim to write their own… — Jack Bruce Copy Share Image
I'm studying musical arts, all the way to composition. But I'm also studying theater arts, stage directing and acting. — Frank Sinatra Jr Copy Share Image
Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have… — Dave Grohl 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
From the composition side of a musician, we have to cater to what the director wants, what the subject demands. — Devi Sri Prasad Copy Share Image
The culture of suppressing women composers and performers goes centuries back in Germany and other countries. Just think of Fanny Mendelssohn and… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite "novelistic" to you, and I am willing to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I'm just wowed by the universe. I'm just glad to do something I love to do. I love color, I love painting,… — Peter Max Copy Share Image
Another factor is that in terms of the original compositions, this is our strongest year yet. Everyone wrote a fantastic piece and… — Joshua Redman Copy Share Image
It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to each other. I've got lots of… — David Bailey Copy Share Image
One of the principals of composition, I would say, in fiction, is you want to do what you can do a lot… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We living things are a late outgrowth of the metabolism of our galaxy. The carbon that enters into our composition was cooked… — George Wald Copy Share Image
How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
Combining these two ancient teachings (yoga and vipassana) in a seamless manner, which will bring maximum benefits to the meditators, is not… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists in astronautics. I can now reveal… — Gordon Cooper Copy Share Image
Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and… — Elliott Sharp 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
The overscaled compositions being produced by so many abstract painters, which are full of movement and use of color, are ideal example,… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through radioactive materials and a steady increase in carbon… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and "fashionable")… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Sometimes you can define a composition or a couple of notes by the silence that goes around it. — Steve Tibbetts Copy Share Image
Mornings belong to whatever is new; the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world. — Toru Takemitsu Copy Share Image
As a fine artist I was drawn to composition and technique. I would count the cuts. — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
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