You have to know composition to be a good improviser.
quote by Roscoe Mitchell
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The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.
quote by Maynard Ferguson
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As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.
quote by Fred Frith
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What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.
quote by Annie Leibovitz
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The Parable Of The Blind
This horrible but superb painting
the parable of the blind
without a red
in the composition shows a group
of beggars leading
each other diagonally downward
across the canvas
from one side
to stumble finally into a bog
where the picture
and the composition ends back
of which no seeing man
is represented the unshaven
features of the des-
titute with their few
pitiful possessions a basin
to wash in a peasant
cottage is seen and a church spire
the faces are raised
as toward the light
there is no detail extraneous
to the composition one
follows the others stick in
hand triumphant to disaster
poem by William Carlos Williams
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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
quote by Joseph Addison
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My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.
quote by Maurice Ravel
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In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely.
quote by Wilhelm Ostwald
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An unjust composition never fails to contain error and falsehood. Therefore an unjust connection of ideas is not derived from nature, but from the imperfect composition of man. Misconnection of ideas is the same as misjudging, and has no positive existence, being merely a creature of the imagination; but nature and truth are real and uniform; and the rational mind by reasoning, discerns the uniformity, and is thereby enabled to make a just composition of ideas, which will stand the test of truth. But the fantastical illuminations of the credulous and superstitious part of mankind, proceed from weakness, and as far as they take place in the world subvert the religion of REASON, NATURE and TRUTH.
quote by Ethan Allen
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Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.
quote by Diego Rivera
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And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.
quote by Karlheinz Stockhausen
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
quote by Robert Henri
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Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
quote by Vincent Van Gogh
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The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.
quote by Rick Moody
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What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
quote by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
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There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.
quote by William Shatner
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A Modern Communication System!
Everything has been simplified for want of time now!
Communication devices encourage brief messaging;
Long instructions for management or information stop
Superseding to small message servicing already here.
New form of writings has come up according to time;
Poetry has more scope than articles or stories in big size.
After seeing various forms to blank verse poetry comes
Now in the form of free verse depicting individuals style.
Mechanical, fundamental poetry writing is orthodox now;
Natural, pure poetry composition has prominence no doubt.
Exposing whole truth to the society is the job of journalism;
Governance of the people to prosperity is the job of politics;
Exploration of truth and wisdom is the work of philosophy;
Poetry composition combines all these to communicate to all!
poem by Ramesh T A
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Composition has almost always been solitary.
quote by Wendy Carlos
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Composition is definitely what I'm born to do, and it came last.
quote by David Friedman
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No one has the Houdini school of composition.
quote by Morton Feldman
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I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.
quote by Dizzy Gillespie
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