Composition Quotes

417 quotes by 332 authors

In 1968 I ran into Steve Lacy on the street in Rome. I took out my pocket tape recorder and asked him to describe in… — Frederic Rzewski
If the reader were so rash as to purchase any of Bela Bartok's compositions, he would find that they each and all consist of unmeaning… — Frederick Corder
Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street. — Miles Davis
An entire composition written in jazz could not live. — George Gershwin
Whenever you study composition you inevitably encounter Bach right off the bat. You can't get across the room without running into him and the other… — Howard Roberts
An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its expression; he must… — Henri Matisse
I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner. — Alejo Carpentier
On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? — Victor Francis Hess
The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition. — Alexander Calder
And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good. — Karlheinz Stockhausen
I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the… — David Tudor
At one point [Cardew] taught himself to play guitar simply in order to take part in the performance in a composition by Boulez, which is… — Morton Feldman
As sounds in a musical composition can be used not to express physical objects but ideas, emotions, harmonies, rhythmic orders and most any expression of… — Wynn Bullock
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted. — Michael Ignatieff
Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but… — Francis Crick
See what's inside a drop of water. The whole seed of the universe. Come, come. See what's inside a drop of blood. The composition of… — Manuel Rivas
Visually Agincourt is a pre-Raphaelite, perhaps better a Medici Gallery print battle - a composition of strong verticals and horizontals and a conflict of rich… — John Keegan
I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader… — John Philip Sousa

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