Composition Quotes
417 quotes by 332 authors
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When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans…
— Theodore White
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My religion lies in my composition.
— John Philip Sousa
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I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were…
— Miroslav Vitous
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Since the discovery of oxygen the civilised world has undergone a revolution in manners and customs. The knowledge of the composition of the atmosphere, of…
— Justus von Liebig
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I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases me to be…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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A Composition on the Piano
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on.
— Richard Rodney Bennett
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Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense, imagination…
— Willa Cather
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Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass…
— Alexander Herzen
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I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.
— Yann Tiersen
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With his new CD 'Tactiles' Liberty Ellman emerges as one of the most intriguing, albeit unorthodox, guitarists on the New York scene today. An album…
— Bill Milkowski
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Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.
— Brian Eno
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The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and space, pattern and…
— Andreas Feininger
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Brahma was excessively sparing with earth, water, and fire.... The reckless expenditure of air and ether in his composition was amazing. And, in consequence, he…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition of buildings with…
— Tom Turner
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The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper…
— Michel de Montaigne
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In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving...
— William Francis Henry King
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Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of my…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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How much finer things are in composition than alone.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.
— Charles Lamb
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