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Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' It's one of the greatest bass players ever doing a whole composition with only the two harmonics of electric bass; then a three-second loop in it became every great R&B song in five-year intervals.

~Diplo

Topics: About Bass Became Composition Doing Electric Ever Every Every Time Five-Year Great Greatest Hip-Hop Impress Intervals Loop Only Play Players Portrait Samples Someone Song Then Time Tracy Two Want Whole

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I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

~Dizzy Gillespie

Topics: Composition Like Only Play You

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Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Book Compose Composition Down Every Every Time Hazard Just People Sit Stake Themselves Time Who Write Writers You Your Yourself

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Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Acts Books Compose Composition Fiction Make Music Them You

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I studied fine arts, and color and composition was always my thing, but I've never been too wild with my fashion.

~Ed Skrein

Topics: Always Arts Been Color Composition Fashion Fine Fine Arts Never Studied Thing Too Wild

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I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition.

~Eddy Grant

Topics: Am Claiming Composition Copyright Original Outraged Song Time Warp I Am

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Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

~Edward Gibbon

Topics: Arts Book Composition Habits Learning Original Resolved Thinking Unskilled Write

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Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.

~Edward Weston

Topics: Before Composition Consulting Going Gravity Laws Like Photograph Rules Taking Walk

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Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection.

~Edward Weston

Topics: Accomplished Before Composition Consult Consulting Fact Going Gravitation Law Laws Like Little Making Now Picture Products Reflection Rules Walk

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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.

~Elfriede Jelinek

Topics: Against Composition Example Expose For Example Kind Language Led Me Meaning Music Musical Play Process Sound Speak Then Training True Which Will Words

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