Composition Quote by Benny Carter

It was easy for people to be derisive about our music because they saw what we were doing as retro. But we were like…

— Eric Carmen

And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the…

— Anonymous

It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.

— Walter Becker

I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the…

— Robert Morris

I wasn't always totally interested solely in music as a sort of visceral expression of people in unison and synchronized, a federated expression of…

— Oneohtrix Point Never

My thing was, I loved music. I played music: I played the saxophone. So the little bit of music knowhow I had, I tried…

— Rakim

What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.

— Philip Glass

The synth helped us in that it meant you didn't have to be a traditional four-piece band and basically, you didn't have to work…

— Curt Smith

We didn't like the way that our 'Behind the Music' came out at all, to say the least, and so it made everybody kind…

— Gina Schock

I think what we tried to do lyrically, vocally and musically was to capture a sound.

— Stephen Mallinder

Popular music was this abstraction - an abstraction that I was relating to immensely but was ultimately far away.

— Kelela

Our taste in music has changed over the years, and our thoughts on how we should project ourselves through music has changed as well.

— Ok Taec-yeon