Musical Composition Quotes

#1. There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition is said to have color and a painting to have rhythm.

Alton Tobey

#2. I cannot copy nature in a servile way; I am forced to interpret nature and submit it to the spirit of the picture. From the relationship I have found in all the tones there must result a living harmony of colors, a harmony analogous to that of a musical composition.

Henri Matisse

#3. Learn by heart the forms to be found in nature, so that you can use them like the notes in a musical composition. That is what these forms are for. Nature is a marvellous chaos, and it is our job and our duty to bring order into that chaos and - to perfect it.

Max Beckmann

#4. Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.

Horace Silver

#5. I personally do not believe in politics, hatred, or anger in my musical composition.

Horace Silver

#6. As sounds in a musical composition can be used not to express physical objects but ideas, emotions, harmonies, rhythmic orders and most any expression of the human mind and spirit, so light can be used visually to express the mind and spirit.

Wynn Bullock

#7. Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create affects the audience.

John Carpenter

#8. And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

#9. Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists ... understand that successful artistic creativity depends upon extensive visual exposure.

Paul Laseau

#10. The eighties are a sorely underrated decade in terms of musical composition. They don't get nearly the respect they deserve. I try to use my platform in the world to bring attention to this travesty by singing eighties ballads whenever I get the chance.

Emma Chase

#11. MIDI made a natural transition to the PC. The MIDI messages that make up a musical composition can be saved as MIDI files, which are collections of MIDI messages with timing information.

Charles Petzold

#12. I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software design.

Frederick Lenz

#13. Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear.

Nancy Gibbs

#14. As the monkey climbs the tree, more people can see his bottom.

Jean-Louis Gassee

#15. She did like him ... sometimes. When he was not a complete knacker.

Meljean Brook

#16. People only call you 'my dear' when they are irritated with you.

Jean Kerr

#17. There is no standard way of using painting techniques.

Wu Guanzhong

#18. My own musical background is based in the blues, and in classical composition. I grew up listening to Muddy Waters, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Beethoven and Bach.

Frederick Lenz

#19. Going back and forth between Western Arabic and African countries clearly created the various musical backgrounds I could have and obviously influenced my professional attitude, my way of approaching both music composition and singing, particularly phrasing.

Rokia Traore

#20. Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually entering it in the score, the more pleasing will be his composition when given life through musical instruments.

Max Heindel

#21. Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.

Robert Bringhurst

#22. I am an American aquarium drinker

Jeff Tweedy

#23. Time is, as you are probably aware, merely a convenient fiction. There is no such thing as time.

E. Nesbit

#24. I was afraid of the sea when I was a girl. Someone said it went on forever and that frightened me. I wondered why my parents had chosen to live at the beginning and the end of the world.

Simon Van Booy

#25. The mysteries and scandals of the Kremlin are nothing compared to the mysteries and scandals of the Bolshoi.

Robert Gottlieb

#26. I still blog, but I do think blogging will become obsolete, as there are more ways of interacting on the Web with low barriers to entry for people to engage and participate.

Biz Stone

#27. You can't believe what a lovely planet we have until you see her from outside.

Robert A. Heinlein

#28. Do not quit too soon.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. Toccata by Pietro Domenico Paradisi - the one from his Sonata in A Major - come tripping out to meet me. The Toccata was my favorite composition; to my mind it was the greatest musical accomplishment in the entire history of the world, but I knew that if Ophelia found that out,

Alan Bradley

#30. There's no how-to guide for how to change the world. But it's easy to get hung up by misconceptions about what it takes to make an impact.

Wendy Kopp

#31. Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.

Miles Davis

#32. It is past time for the U.S. government to fully fulfill our moral obligation to those who have fought for freedom and democracy.

Tim Ryan

#33. A man who looks guilty is found guilty.

Michael Connelly

#34. My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.

Elfriede Jelinek

#35. At night, neurotics may toil not, but oh how they spin!

Mignon McLaughlin