Approach Quote by Bill Bruford

A Composition on the Piano

— Johann Sebastian Bach

When I hear the piano played in a compositional way, like in a songwriter's way in a compositional way, there's a certain arc to…

— Chick Corea

I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.

— Placido Domingo

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

— Henry David Thoreau

Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and…

— Benjamin Britten

Composition is interesting because, in a sense, you always have to let it go. Unless you're a true composer/performer, you're always sending a PDF…

— Nico Muhly

I've been playing piano my whole life but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made really. Try to imagine if you'd loved…

— Caio Fonseca

Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.

— John Cage

Read your own compositions,and when you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

— Anonymous

Never mind, put any book on the piano, and someone can turn from time to time, so I need not look as though I…

— Felix Mendelssohn

I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.

— Ken Burns

A lot of my stuff in the past has been very piano-based.

— Benson Boone