Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.
Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is usually only a few minutes long.
Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.
You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.
There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.
Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.
I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
Everything must work in concert. Composition is important, but so are many other things, from content to the way colours work with or against each other.
The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further.
I like, 'I Believe In Father Christmas' - that is one of my favorites it is a lovely composition; 'Colder Than Winter' as well. There are so many beautiful songs.
Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult.
When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
