#composition

I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only 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

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I don't listen to much modern composition. ↗

— Colin Greenwood

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What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music. ↗

— Roscoe Mitchell

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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition. ↗

— Claude Monet

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Improvisation is a compositional method. ↗

— Evan Parker

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The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks. ↗

— Johannes Stark

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I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines. ↗