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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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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

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Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

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We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something. ↗

— Alma Gluck

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Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. ↗

— Robert Hall

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Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean. ↗

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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When I need the idea, I can find it immediately. I have a horror of rewriting or deleting; the parts of my composition are carried in my head 'till I can write them down, even to the last note. Then I do not alter a jot. ↗

— Ruggero Leoncavallo

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I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music. ↗

— Robert Morris

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There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

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