Quotes about Composition

Seek Players Who Will Make the Best Team Rather Than the Best Players.

Then I thought, Maybe it doesn't need a bass part as much as it needs a bass sound. I turned on my Roland Juno-106 synth and created a very simple and understated bass sound. All low end, no attack, no high end. Just simple, anchoring bass. I played it over the chords and it worked. Most people wouldn't even notice the bass; it just sat there underneath the song, holding it together.

One way God establishes beauty is by putting things that are different next to each other.

It is only to admit that what we have cannot be explained as an early (second-millennium-BC) document written essentially by one person (Moses). Rather, the Pentateuch has a diverse compositional history spanning many centuries and was brought to completion after the return from exile.

And he joined five of the curtains together, and the other five he joined as well.

its legs were iron, and its feet were part iron and part clay.

whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God has composed the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it,

Now all the candles were lit, and the faces on both sides of the table were brought nearer by the candle light, and composed, as they had not been in the twilight, into a party round a table

Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water, and nobody knows what it is." —D. H. Lawrence, Pansies

Whitman's poems present no trace of rhyme, save in a couple or so of chance instances. Parts of them, indeed, may be regarded as a warp of prose amid the weft of poetry

In my opinion, an album has a story from start to finish and has a concrete concept.

But if, on the other hand, our theory should allow that a book may well be a revelation in spite of errors and passions and deliberate human composition, if only it be a true record of the inner experiences of great-souled persons wrestling with the crises of their fate, then the verdict would be much more favorable.