KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Quotes for topic: Composition


Share this page on

Showing 21-30 of 67 quotes in the topic Composition

People can change the volume, the location and the composition of their income, and they can do so in response to changes in government policies.

~Arthur Laffer

Topics: Change Changes Composition Government Income Location People Policies Response Volume

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.

~Arthur Murphy

Topics: Cheerfulness Composition Health Ingredient Principle Sir

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.

~Bianca Jagger

Topics: Admit Always Been Composition Contra Made Mistake Opposition Understanding War Willing

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I think everything's experimental whether you like it or not. I think that people who do generic pop are experimenting with cliches. It's no less than I am experimenting with noise or unknown music - until you say, 'This is my song, or this is my composition' - it's all experimental, whether you like it or not.

~Bill Laswell

Topics: Am Cliches Composition Everything Experimental Experimenting Generic Less Like Music Noise People Pop Say Song Than Think Unknown Until Whether Who You I Think I Am

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Stress on fast growing companies comes from a lot of different places. The one that is often the largest, and creates the most second-order issues, is the composition of the leadership team. More specifically, it's specific people on the leadership who don't have the scale experience their role requires at a particular moment in time.

~Brad Feld

Topics: Companies Composition Creates Different Different Places Experience Fast Growing Issues Largest Leadership Lot Moment More Most Often Particular People Places Requires Role Scale Specific Specifically Stress Team Time Who

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the roles of the musicians. It's all in little boxes. The reason you get child prodigies in chess, arithmetic, and classical composition is that they are all worlds of discontinuous, parceled-up possibilities.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Arithmetic Boxes Chess Child Classical Composition Cut Digital Get Little Music Musicians Orchestral Perhaps Possibilities Reason Roles Say Should Terms Up Worlds You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.

~Brian Ferneyhough

Topics: Been Benefit Certain Composition Cool Did Distance Europe Had Increasing Left Observing Relevance Several Teacher Tendencies Thought Would Years

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.

~Bruno Latour

Topics: Common Composition Definition Politics World Would

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


My background in music is classical - I did graduate school in music. At that time, I was studying composition, but I was studying classical guitar very seriously.

~Bryce Dessner

Topics: Background Classical Composition Did Graduate Graduate School Guitar Music School Seriously Studying Time Very

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The thing I realised about composition is, we remember most composers for four bars of music. Four singable bars of music. Pretty much any major composer from Debussy to Ravel to Mozart to whoever else - you can kind of hum it.

~Bryce Dessner

Topics: About Any Bars Composer Composers Composition Else Four Hum Kind Major Most Mozart Much Music Pretty Realised Remember Thing Whoever You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Popular Authors

Francis Of Assisi Ruth Bader Ginsburg Billy Graham St. Jerome Paul Mccartney Conor Mcgregor Edgar Allan Poe Denzel Washington

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1810 - P. T. Barnum

1586 - Thomas Hooker

1849 - William Thomas Stead

1853 - Cecil Rhodes

1857 - Clara Zetkin

1882 - Hazrat Inayat Khan

1889 - Jean Cocteau

1890 - Frederick Lewis Allen

1899 - Marcel Achard

1902 - Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

Birthdays on July 5th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Age Anger Diet Equality Funny Future Great Moving On