Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition...
I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.
Your composite health is directly proportional to your composite wealth.
What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equatio...
When I hear the piano played in a compositional way, like in a songwriter's way in a compositional way, there's a certain arc to that that I love.
On 'Metallica,' I recorded six or seven different guitar solos for almost every song, took the best aspects of each solo, mapped out a master solo and made a composite. Then I learned how to play the composite solo, tightened it up and replayed it fo...
But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called compo...
What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch ...
In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like propert...
Improvisation is a compositional method.
You tend to compose things more in the middle of frame in 3-D than you would in a conventional frame. You can really see composition in 2-D but in 3-D your composition is much more complex. Everything has to be artificially enhanced. But you do gain ...
You have to know composition to be a good improviser.
No one has the Houdini school of composition.
Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.
I don't listen to much modern composition.
My religion lies in my composition.
A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.
The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.
I personally do not believe in politics, hatred, or anger in my musical composition.
I don't want to wear my compositional tools on my sleeve.
