#composition

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. ↗

— David Tudor

#always #composition #felt #finished #i

You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, when they would ask him, what's his favorite composition? And I say, I haven't written it yet. Because, you know, there are different songs for different occasions. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#ask #because #composition #different #duke

You have to know composition to be a good improviser. ↗

— Roscoe Mitchell

#good #improviser #know #you

I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#careful #composition #element #factor #got

There are particular images that I like. Allegro is composed of a series of still life photographs that has been put to speed. There is so much care that has gone into the composition of the cinematography. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#care #cinematography #composed #composition #gone

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#bit #born #composition #entire #even

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. ↗

— Antoine Lavoisier

#composition #consider #formed #i #kinds

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

— Alejo Carpentier

#harmony #i #manner #spontaneous #studied

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

#class #composition #english #essays #first

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

— Matthew Shipp

#fit #his #monk #more #name