Composition Quote by Morton Feldman Download Open image “No one has the Houdini school of composition.” — Morton Feldman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composition Houdini School
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same shapes and contours, but… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians. — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart. — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon. — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost. — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it. — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock,… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists... understand that… — Paul Laseau Copy Share Image
A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself.… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
When I start writing a new imaginary future, I have no idea what it is. The characters arrive first. They help me figure out… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up… — Henri Rabaud Copy Share Image
Science does not enter a chaotic society to put order into it anymore, to simplify its composition, and to put an end to controversies.… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are… — Socrates Copy Share Image
If you really want to be a good archaeologist, you have to understand ancient DNA; you have to understand chemical analysis to figure out… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share Image
