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One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.
I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.
The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.
For one, the whole concept of 'Live From Here' - writing a song every week - was like composition bootcamp.
And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.
The Smiths hasn't been equaled. That goes for the composition of the songs, the lyrics, and the performance.
If you observe, all classic love songs have a tinge of melancholy that comes naturally with the composition.
I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.
I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.
And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.
Lyrics is the face of any song. The combination of composition, lyrics and singing is what makes a song a song.
I studied fine arts, and color and composition was always my thing, but I've never been too wild with my fashion.
The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.
When it comes to our 'Jai ho,' the song became a super hit because of the composition of Rahman... He made the tune.
A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.
The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.
When you feel like putting something into your picture or do not know what is the matter with it, take something out.
A great composition or lyrics no longer decide whether something is good. What matters is, how much has it been seen.
Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.
The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.
My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures.
The sound itself, the production, is of such great importance that it has become an integrated part of the composition.
Music is what feelings sound like, and to sing a meaningfully melodious composition like 'Suno apne dil ki' is a rarity.
People who come up through life or literature the hard way must inevitably carry their scars with them into composition.
What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.
The images are compositions of photos superimposed over painted backgrounds, then finished off with digital alterations.
......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.
I don't think I differentiate between composition and improvisation. Improvisation could be a large part of a composition.
Because of their chemical composition e-cigarettes are at least as harmful to your health as regular tobacco cigarettes are.
I have a degree in music, yeah, from the University of Montana. I studied voice and composition and conducting and all that.
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.
I took some comp for non-comp major classes with Giacomo Bracali and Ludmila Ulela, who was a really famous composition teacher.
I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on.
Visually, I'm always considering shots and composition quite a lot, and I love putting art into films, and I do a lot of the art.
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
We're more about other things over odd timings: orchestration, composition, horn/vocal arrangements - that's where we get super weird.
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is usually only a few minutes long.
Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.
Well, being fit is not about flaunting muscles or biceps. Being fit is about flexibility and fit is about flexibility and body composition.
When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does.
Once a composition is complete I sing the track and send it to the director. He sometimes suggests I record them in my voice, and I go ahead.