#composition

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing. Franz Schubert ↗

— Franz Schubert

#franz-schubert #music #music

When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#about #approach #body #building #buildings

The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious. ↗

— John Fahey

#opening #other #thing #unconscious #up

Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. ↗

— Stan Brakhage

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After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf sur le Toit' and 'La Cretion du Monde.' I especially enjoy his work for two pianos, 'Scaramouche.' ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#california #composition #enjoy #especially #his

No one has the Houdini school of composition. ↗

— Morton Feldman

#houdini #school

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

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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

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