Composition Quotes - Page 2

I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things - they have to get along with one another.

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

No one has the Houdini school of composition.

My religion lies in my composition.

The composition is already there, you just need to crop it

An entire composition written in jazz could not live.

One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.

The images are compositions of photos superimposed over painted backgrounds, then finished off with digital alterations.

Drawing and composition are the same thing.

We are God's productions, His compositions.

Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia.

Composition is frozen improvisation.

I don't think I differentiate between composition and improvisation. Improvisation could be a large part of a composition.

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.

Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.

The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything.

How much finer things are in composition than alone.

That's what Samuel Johnson said: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think particularly fine, strike it out."

I took some comp for non-comp major classes with Giacomo Bracali and Ludmila Ulela, who was a really famous composition teacher.

The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.

You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.

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.

I don't listen to much modern composition.

For my qualifying concert, Helmut Walcha would not coach Charles-Marie Widor or any American compositions. In his defense, his forte was Germanic composers, and his forte was really a fortissimo!