#composition

When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#benefit #certain #composition #cool #did

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#actually #back #be careful #careful #come

Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#beyond #composition #difficult #difficult things #does

And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time. ↗

— Joan Collins

#away #because #compositions #i #little

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

— Dizzy Gillespie

#compositions #i #like #only #play

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

Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#background #became #by the time #compositional #doing

...anyone still attempting to argue that Ebonics is a problem for black students or that it is somehow connected to a lack of intelligence or lack of desire to achieve is about as useful as a Betamax video cassette player, and it's time for those folks to be retired, be they teachers, administrators, or community leaders, so the rest of us can try to do some real work in the service of equal access for black students and all students. (15) ↗

— Adam J. Banks

#black #composition #digitalization #dj #education

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

People can change the volume, the location and the composition of their income, and they can do so in response to changes in government policies. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#changes #composition #government #government policies #income