Arrangements Quotes

My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.

— Robin Trower

I write arrangements. I'm sort of a wannabe composer.

— Joshua Bell

Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.

— Carl Sandburg

Perhaps," he said, "we should discuss our arrangements, then.

— Cassandra Clare

I was always good at hearing complete arrangements in my head.

— Jimmy Page

I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.

— Van Morrison

Nothing is new except arrangement.

— Will Durant

As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements.

— Mel Torme

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

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

...the institutional arrangement whereby most professional economists are heavily burdened with teaching and administrative duties may militate against a sufficient admixture of…

— Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod

An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the…

— Anonymous

Brenda did some little vocal arrangements for us and she got to sing as well. So, we're happy to be able to…

— Rick Derringer

Writing is not a special language that belongs to a few sensitive souls who have a 'gift for words'. Writing is the…

— William Zinsser

Expression for me does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of…

— Henri Matisse

It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it…

— Mark Twain

What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only…

— Henry David Thoreau

If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

— Barbara Tuchman

We have to be careful in negotiating with Iran that we don't create the impression among the Arab states and the Sunni…

— Henry A. Kissinger

I always believe that every song tells a story, so the last thing I want to do is edit out like the…

— David Cook

One of the great things about the United States is that when it comes to world affairs, the president obviously is the…

— Barack Obama

As mineralogy constitutes a part of chemistry, it is clear that this arrangement [of minerals] must derive its principles from chemistry. The…

— Jons Jacob Berzelius

I prefer formal techniques, and use sonnets and rhyme, any manner of scheme to give a shape and order-of feeling as well…

— J. D. McClatchy

I was becoming more cunning than an animal in hiding my supply of morphine. A squirrel saving nuts is limited by its…

— Evalyn Walsh McLean

Abundance, like everything else in the universe, is simply a specific arrangement of energy and information. With our intention, we can change…

— Deepak Chopra

I have said there are three principles that should be followed. One, we should maintain the "one China" policy that every American…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes,…

— Daniel Berrigan

People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility…

— Anthony de Jasay

“Arrangements. I remember his using the word arrangements. What a hateful word it is and all the things it stands for. The…

— Agatha Christie

I have never really got used to being on this earth. Sometimes I think our presence here is due to a cosmic…

— John Banville

Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements…

— James Clerk Maxwell

Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually…

— Bill Vaughan

Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One…

— Evelyn Waugh

No one seeing a beautifully elaborated lyre with its harmonious, orderly arrangement, and hearing the lyre's music will fail to form a…

— Gregory of Nazianzus