#composition

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. ↗

— James Thurber

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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

#amount #art #art forms #built #comes

I have been blessed with some incredible compositions to record and perform and all of my songs have had the ability to grow as I and those who have supported this career of mine for these 50 years have. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#been #blessed #career #compositions #grow

You have to know composition to be a good improviser. ↗

— Roscoe Mitchell

#good #improviser #know #you

There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed. ↗

— Alan Hovhaness

#awful #been #burn #compositions #destroyed

A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra. ↗

— Michael Bolton

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions. ↗

— Paul Klee

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And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

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

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

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Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

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