"I don't want to wear my compositional tools…" — Lou Harrison

More Compositional Quotes

This quote is filed under Compositional Quotes, one of 15 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• The artist's quest is to succeed in combining and balancing all compositional attributes and physical elements into those that are… — Edward J. Fraughton
• I endeavor to make a picture, for instance, exert a positive influence on the observer by its coloring, mood, and… — Max Bill
• Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not… — Stan Brakhage
• Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should… — Brian Ferneyhough
• I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is… — Geddy Lee
• Improvisation is a compositional method. — Evan Parker
• Yes, I have been studying piano since I was six. Classical, jazz, compositional, Broadway, everything. I just love it all. — Janel Parrish
• One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting. — Robert Genn
• A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability... — Robert Genn
• Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he… — Twyla Tharp
• The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or… — Frank Zappa
• There is no piece of music that could relate to anything else but itself and its world. It is truly… — Rafael Vinoly

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