Arrangements Quotes · Page 4

Vocal arrangements are something I'm working a lot with for the new songs.

— Jens Lekman

We've done an arrangement with an orchestra, but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of…

— Brian May

Most groups today aren't groups. In a true group all the members create the arrangements among themselves.

— Robby Krieger

What I'm going for with the string arrangements for my Antarctic symphony is a pun here.

— DJ Spooky

Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.

— Rudolf Arnheim

A composition is an arrangement, built out of parts, that aims at seamlessness.

— Eric Maisel

I have a wife and anything. That's the arrangement we have. I have a wife, and she's cool. And also I have…

— Nick Thune

Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter.

— Joseph Joubert

I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements…

— Washed Out

An inert historical fact is any fact about a perfectly ordinary arrangement of matter in the world at some point in the…

— Daniel Dennett

In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just…

— Graham Parker

Curses are exacting, legal arrangements of the spiritual world. Just like human contracts contain fine print and legally crafted language, satanic curses…

— Bob Larson

We do not believe in quotas. They would not only be undesirable, they would be illegal. There is legal protection for the…

— David Willetts

When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like…

— Ingmar Bergman

It would be a very sharp & trying experience to me to think that I have an affliction which God never sent…

— Charles Spurgeon

A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is…

— Nan Fairbrother

We were more fortunate than most, because [Bernard] Leach had been in America on a lecture tour in 1950, and we made…

— Warren MacKenzie

When we conduct agriculture, we are, therefore, altering the ecological arrangement that was responsible for our genesis as a species. I think…

— Wes Jackson

Indisputably we live in a shaped reality, an artificialism. Most people who grasp this are thinking only at a consumer-level, of the…

— Kenny Smith

In fact, technology in, and of, itself does not cause particular kinds of change. It is, essentially, an enabling or facilitating agent.…

— Peter Dicken

Comics, which are really best described as an arrangement of images in a sequence that tell a story - an idea -…

— Will Eisner

Thus far, both political parties have been remarkably clever and effective in concealing this new reality. In fact, the two parties have…

— Charles Ferguson

Each man is contained and constrained, on entering social life, to fit his own life in, just as he fits his words…

— Alain Finkielkraut

I get to listen to a lot of this music again doing my DJ work on Little Steven's Underground Garage. To hear…

— Andrew Loog Oldham

I like really sparse electronics, lush arrangements, and interesting chord structures.

— Josh Klinghoffer

If you're ordering me an edible arrangement to say thanks, I'd prefer a meat one.

— LIZ

God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.

— Rex Stout

I'm very influenced by the work of George Martin and the string arrangements that he did for the Beatles.

— Tom Kitt

My job as a film editor is to construct a dramatic narrative because otherwise it's just a chaotic arrangement of sequences.

— Frederick Wiseman

The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere…

— Joseph Campbell

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

— Hanif Kureishi

The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.

— Lydia M. Child

I used to rely too much on arrangements and production, things like dancers and explosions.

— Thalia

Identify in your work opposites of color, form, compositional arrangements, space, etc.

— Joshua L. Goldberg

Social intercourse, even friendship among most people, is a merely a business arrangement that lasts only so long as there is need.

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Somebody else is satisfied by five Bentleys. I'm satisfied by a beautiful string arrangement.

— Beck

I wish you wouldn't make the strings such an important part of your arrangements because frankly they're only a tax dodge!

— Tommy Dorsey

I didn't start writing with band arrangements until I was working on 'Tramp.'

— Sharon Van Etten

Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.

— Billy Joel

I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.

— Wang Leehom