#composition

I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner. ↗

— Alejo Carpentier

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I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that. ↗

— Joan Collins

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The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

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I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions. ↗

— Paul Klee

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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. ↗

— William Shatner

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Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name. ↗

— Matthew Shipp

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And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

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And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

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