A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.
Dimitri Shostakovich

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.
Karlheinz Stockhausen

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
Karlheinz Stockhausen

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

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

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

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

Composition has almost always been solitary.
Wendy Carlos

Composition is definitely what I'm born to do, and it came last.
David Friedman

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

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.
Letitia Landon

Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner.
Ravi Shankar

Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.
Marshall McLuhan

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.
James Nasmyth

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
Robert Henri

Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure.
Ludwig Quidde

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.
Antoine Lavoisier

I don't listen to much modern composition.
Colin Greenwood

I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.
Robin Trower

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