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Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed.


Chris Ware


#amount #art #art forms #built #comes

I have been blessed with some incredible compositions to record and perform and all of my songs have had the ability to grow as I and those who have supported this career of mine for these 50 years have.


Dionne Warwick


#been #blessed #career #compositions #grow

Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection.


Edward Weston


#before #composition #consult #consulting #deduced

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.


Theodore White


#bus #chorus #composition #felt #flew

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.


Vincent Van Gogh


#composition #enormous #fantasy #good #good taste

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem.


Dexter Gordon


#about #being #communicate #composition #depriving

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.


Roscoe Mitchell


#good #improviser #know #you

I don't want to wear my compositional tools on my sleeve.


Lou Harrison


#i #sleeve #tools #want #wear

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.


Robert Henri


#away #bridge #composition #each #good

Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men.


Alexander Herzen


#composition #grass #history #incorporated #influence






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