Composition Quotes
- It (Strayhorn's Compositions) made us all think a little differently about what we were doing — Benny Carter
- Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
- There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's something you feel… — Roy Haynes
- You have to know composition to be a good improviser. — Roscoe Mitchell
- Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name. — Matthew Shipp
- We are God's productions, His compositions. — David Jeremiah
- Composition has almost always been solitary. — Wendy Carlos
- I allow my creativity to push me in directions that are simply interesting to me and I don’t worry about the likeness of the result… — Mark Applebaum
- Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and then rewrote their… — Elliott Sharp
- I'm chasing a kind of language that can be unburdened by people's expectations. I think music is the primary model-how close can you get this… — Terrance Hayes
- Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books. — Charlotte Mason
- What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition. — Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds… — Alma Gluck
- If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in harmony or in… — Janet Burroway
- Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision. — Barrett Wendell
- Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone cutters slowly attempting… — Howard Whitley Eves
- A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of intelligence in their… — William Henry Hudson
- Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and… — Samuel Johnson
- When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool… — Brian Ferneyhough
- I don't listen to much modern composition. — Colin Greenwood