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• I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can’t ignore it, but you’ve got to be very careful that it’s not motivating you.

  Damien Hirst

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• I’ve always felt that there’s a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that’s the point where I know the composition is finished.

  David Tudor

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• Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets.

  Francis Crick

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• Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

  Toru Takemitsu

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• When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.

  Joshua Lederberg

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• I don’t listen to much modern composition.

  Colin Charles Greenwood

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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

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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

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  Tags in Arts, Composition, Learning

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

  Edward Weston

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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

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  Tags in Training, Music, Composition

• At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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• The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

  Rick Moody

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• I must say I’ve always composed music from the point of view of the performers.

  Walter Piston

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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.

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

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  Tags in Ear, Content, Composition, Conscious

• Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

  Walt Whitman

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  Tags in Composition, Viewed, Growth, Time, Race, Language

• 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.

  William Shatner

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  Tags in Composition, Shot