Composition Quotes

417 quotes by 332 authors

Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its composition, itâ€™s appearance,… — W S Merwin
A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules… — Jacques Derrida
I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
For the love of ammonites, man! That's just stupid. Why on earth would the Society need to protect unmarried women from bone-dry lectures regarding soil… — Tessa Dare
People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so much time and thought to compositions… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. — Edmund Burke
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to… — David Hume
It is not a sin to introduce a personal bias that can be recognized and discounted. The sin in historical composition is the organization of… — Herbert Butterfield
A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one. — Dmitri Shostakovich
I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz. — Jimmy Page
The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if tongue-tied, hard to… — Soren Kierkegaard
It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows just don't happen.… — Morton Feldman
When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. — Dexter Gordon
In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds. — Steve Lacy
Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge. — Jelly Roll Morton
Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. A composition for cheapness… — Josiah Wedgwood
Strong line quality, composition and form are more crucial although even this is loosely done. — Frank Bruno
Where are there are two desires in a man's heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest, there being no… — Mark Twain
For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to… — Antonio Damasio
Going back and forth between Western Arabic and African countries clearly created the various musical backgrounds I could have and obviously influenced my professional attitude,… — Rokia Traore

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