Composition Quote by Alejo Carpentier Download Open image “I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.” — Alejo Carpentier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composition Harmony Peace Spontaneous
A considerable role in the forming of my style was played by an early attraction to study composition. — Vasily Smyslov Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument. — George Benson Copy Share Image
I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose… — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
I had composed songs, I sang, and played the vina. Practising this music I arrived at a stage where I touched the music of… — Hazrat Inayat Khan 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 the lessons… — Kip Winger Copy Share Image
When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music… — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
I cannot learn creation from other people; I've got to do it myself. Now, honestly, I regret not studying - I don't know about… — PSY Copy Share Image
I started writing music as a composer in school, in the classical tradition. — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
“Self study leads to improvisation and improvisation leads to evolution.” — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
Anything I do, I learn about first. I am not in favour of improvisation; I believe in work and in learning — Ferreira Gullar Copy Share Image
“The thunder traveled over the ship, from west to east, with prolonged reverberations, before it moved away with its clouds, leaving the sea, by… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
“How hard it is to become a man again when one has ceased to be a man." -The Lost Steps” — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
“Si en estos países se moría por pasiones que me fueran incomprensibles, no por ello era la muerte menos muerte.” — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
“In the quarter where the sun should have appeared, the sky was covered by a strange reddish cloud, like smoke, like hot ashes, like… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
A day will come when man will discover an alphabet in the eyes of the chalcedonies, in the marking of the moth, and will… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
“But everywhere dark shapes were already melting into the night, seeking asylum in the undergrowth and the jungle. Those not caught in the first… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
I had breathed in the atmosphere created by Henri Christophe, the monarch of incredible aims, much more surprising than all the kings invented by… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
“A day will come when men will discover an alphabet in the eyes of chalcedonies, in the markings of the moth, and will learn… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
From the beginning, the sensation of the marvelous presupposes faith. — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown is revealed,… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock,… — Alan Greenspan 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... understand that… — Paul Laseau Copy Share Image
A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself.… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
When I start writing a new imaginary future, I have no idea what it is. The characters arrive first. They help me figure out… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The… — Roland Barthes 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 shut up… — Henri Rabaud Copy Share Image
Science does not enter a chaotic society to put order into it anymore, to simplify its composition, and to put an end to controversies.… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are… — Socrates Copy Share Image
If you really want to be a good archaeologist, you have to understand ancient DNA; you have to understand chemical analysis to figure out… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share Image
