Compositional Quotes

#1. Identify in your work opposites of color, form, compositional arrangements, space, etc.

Joshua L. Goldberg

#2. Once I had defined myself as a compositional drummer, I thought, "Well, I want to be an improvisational drummer."

Neil Peart

#3. I've always had an artistic hand. I took on paint when I started falling in love with the abstract expressionists. I approached it from a physical standpoint, but I've also been honing my compositional eye through film.

Billy Zane

#4. I endeavor to make a picture, for instance, exert a positive influence on the observer by its coloring, mood, and compositional idea, encouraging, say, activation, tranquilization, concentration, or harmony ...

Max Bill

#5. Whenever you play a song, you're basically playing with a lot of zeros and ones. These are Western compositional models that other cultures have explored in so many ways.

DJ Spooky

#6. I write at the piano, so I write things that fit comfortably under my hands, and I'm not thinking in terms of any specific compositional methods. I'm just seeking sounds.

Esperanza Spalding

#7. When I hear the piano played in a compositional way, like in a songwriter's way in a compositional way, there's a certain arc to that that I love.

Chick Corea

#8. As discussed earlier, when it comes to music, most of us tend to have confidence in our taste even though we may totally lack knowledge regarding historical development or compositional theory. I frequently hear, "I don't know anything about art" but hardly ever, "I don't know anything about music".

Michael Findlay

#9. A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability ...

Robert Genn

#10. spurious credit for compositional skills he didn't possess.

Will Birch

#11. The late twentieth century has been the locus of a new lurch on English's time line in America, where oratorical, poetic, and compositional craft of a rigorously exacting nature has been cast to the margins of the culture.

John McWhorter

#12. 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

#13. I try to find a compositional structure in the subject itself, in nature ... I rely on the angle where the wall meets the floor as a constant reference point, and against that I oppose the movements of the model's limbs.

Philip Pearlstein

#14. Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed.

Chris Ware

#15. I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense.

Geddy Lee

#16. Yes, I have been studying piano since I was six. Classical, jazz, compositional, Broadway, everything. I just love it all.

Janel Parrish

#17. 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

#18. I don't want to wear my compositional tools on my sleeve.

Lou Harrison

#19. A list of the thirteen types of photograph (plus an afterthought): Aide-memoire Reportage Work of art Topography Erotica/Pornography Advertisement Abstract image Literature Text Autobiography Compositional Functional illustration Snapshot

William Boyd

#20. When I eat, I always pick out the best parts in the middle and leave everything else on the side. It becomes a big sculptural mess, but there are nice compositional elements about how it all sits on the table.

Elizabeth Neel

#21. One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.

Robert Genn

#22. The artist's quest is to succeed in combining and balancing all compositional attributes and physical elements into those that are purely spiritual. That is the secret of art.

Edward J. Fraughton

#23. Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano.

Bill Bruford

#24. People have made a living deconstructing Lennon and The Beatles songs because of their compositional sophistication. But what's so exciting about John is that he never had any of that training on musical theory; something just spoke to him, and he just knew what sounded right.

Randy Bachman

#25. In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible ... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.

Steve Reich

#26. The studio is my main compositional tool. And I used to be horrible in the studio. I didn't know any kind of technical stuff. But when you have something in your head, you've gotta figure out a way of executing it.

Mike Patton

#27. Improvisation is a compositional method.

Evan Parker

#28. Make sure that you are in a situation where the constant mistakes are small and can be used for something.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#29. English is a beautiful language, a remarkably precise language with a million words to choose from to deliver your exact shade of meaning.

Laura Fraser

#30. Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.

Nandan Nilekani

#31. Actually, that issue of 'Don't be evil' is probably the number one reason we throw out ideas.

Astro Teller

#32. Hey live for each other; their eyes are interlocked but there is not love between them.

Italo Calvino

#33. There is no such thing as zero uncertainty.

Usama Fayyad

#34. What did the ancients say? 'To love when you're old is a grave misfortune?' No shit. Especially when you're a weathered crock in love with an immortal boy.

Rachael Eyre

#35. The general remedy of those who are uneasy without knowing the cause is change of place.

Samuel Johnson

#36. Prior to the early 1960s, economic theorists rarely constructed models customized to capture unique institutions or specific market characteristics.

George Akerlof