50 Quotes About Composition

Tree trunks are composed of layers of growth. Meaningful expressions are composed of layers of words. Say something meaningful.

A story that needs to have words said about it, is a story that does not contain all its own right words.-- Introduction to Varley's "Persistence Of Vision" collection

Every salad you serve is a picture you have painted, a sculpture you have modeled, a drama you have created.

In the pursuit of greater equality in our education system, from K to PhD, technology access, print literacies, and verbal skill all collide as requirements for even basic participation in an information-based, technology-dependent economy and society.

Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.

Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.

I'm not sure why it makes me feel weird to know that people are playing something I had a hand in creating, but it does. It feels too public somehow, like this thing that I do on my own to stay sane doesn't belong completely to me anymore, or something.

I'm not sure why it makes me feel weird to know that people something I had a hand in creating, but it does. It feels too public somehow, like this thing that I do on my own to stay sane doesn't belong completely to me anymore, or something.