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. Votes: 4
Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street. Votes: 3
It's [music composition] the most effortless thing in the world because you don't do anything. I hate to say it like that, but it's the truth. Votes: 3
I allow my creativity to push me in directions that are simply interesting to me and I don't worry about the likeness of the result to some notion - some paradigm - of what music composition is supposed to be. Votes: 3
I studied piano and viola and voice in high school and music composition in college. For many years before I became an author I was a singer songwriter, writing for Disney and Sesame Street. I believe in perfect rhymes - no cheating! Votes: 3
Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction. Votes: 2
I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing. Votes: 2
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult. Votes: 2
Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
If you want to find the source of much of the music of modern day Russia, you will find it in the incredible compositions of that crazed lunatic Berlioz. Votes: 2
I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition. Votes: 2
From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition. Votes: 2
Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration. Votes: 2
I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style. Votes: 2
A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music. Votes: 2
The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment. Votes: 0
Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation. Votes: 0
I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz. Votes: 0
Most of my records are very dense, composition-heavy, and there's bits of different kinds of music like an acoustic ballad, instrumental trio pieces, and vocal tracks. Votes: 0
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. Votes: 5 Walt Whitman
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. Votes: 7 Bob Marley