Composition Quotations

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

No one has the Houdini school of composition.

One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.

Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.

There's a lot of unconscious activity that goes on I think in the composition of a poem.

If we start with chimpanzees, they differ from us with the composition of the DNA by only just over one percent. So, as far as genetics go, we're almost identical. The composition of the blood, the immune system, the structure of the brain - almost identical.

Even in front of nature one must compose.

You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.

I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.

I don't listen to much modern composition.

We are God's productions, His compositions.

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.

An entire composition written in jazz could not live.

Composition is frozen improvisation.

Composition is selective improvisation.

In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.

There is no field other than the weird in which I have any aptitude or inclination for fictional composition. Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.

A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.

The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

My religion lies in my composition.

The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.

Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

Drawing and composition are the same thing.

A Composition on the Piano

......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.

Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.

My greatest lesson in composition was looking at paintings.

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything.

Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia.

Composition has almost always been solitary.

You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.

The composition is the organized sum of the interior functions of every part of the work.

The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.

I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things - they have to get along with one another.

How much finer things are in composition than alone.

The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.