"When you know the lyrics to a tune,……" — Dexter Gordon

More Composition Quotes

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• The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense,… — Joseph Addison
• My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition;… — Annie Besant
• At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult… — Nick Clegg
• When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together.… — Tadao Ando
• To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all. — Christopher Tunnard
• When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition,… — Joseph Addison
• In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of… — Julia Cameron
• He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer… — Hector Hugh Munro
• My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to… — Maurice Ravel
• As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to… — Isaac Newton
• If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars,… — Guglielmo Marconi

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