Arrangements Quotes · Page 3

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

— Lydia M. Child

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

— Joshua L. Goldberg

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

— Thalia

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

— Beck

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

— Sharon Van Etten

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

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

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

— DJ Spooky

Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy.

— John L. Lewis

There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who…

— Jello Biafra

The importance of colour is as nothing compared with that of form, chiaroscuro and arrangement. They are the true and enduring bases…

— Walter J. Phillips

There are some people who do great stuff singing and playing fiddle at the same time and doing that kind of arrangement.…

— Sam Amidon

... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement…

— Leonardo da Vinci

The reason I wanted to become an organ player was because I heard Ray Charles play on Quincy Jones' arrangement of "One…

— Booker T. Jones

Humans socialize in the largest groups of all primates because we are the only animals with brains large enough to handle the…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I like songs that have like a little bit of quirkiness to them. What I like to do with songs, is kind…

— John Legend

When I was thirteen, I had a nervous breakdown, and I was put into this grown-up mental hospital with all these 50-,…

— Duncan Roy

I am myself persuaded, on the basis of extensive study of the historical evidence, that... the severity of each of the contractions…

— Milton Friedman

I was offered a job at the Cincinnati Post as their editorial cartoonist in a trial six month arrangement. The agreement was…

— Bill Watterson

But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret…

— Galileo Galilei

The difference between good and bad cookery can scarcely be more strikingly shown than in the manner in which sauces are prepared…

— Eliza Acton

Our society trains us to think of marriage as a contractual arrangement. If one party fails to fulfill his or her end,…

— Michael Horton

Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held…

— Michel Foucault

I'm somebody who grew up listening to a lot of musical theater, so getting to finally write musical theater songs and songs…

— Sara Bareilles

But since the Modernists (as they are commonly and rightly called) employ a very clever artifice, namely, to present their doctrines without…

— Pope Pius X

As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement.…

— Albert Einstein

That's always attractive to me, to work with music whose form is a big question mark. Even many of my favorite bands…

— Charlie Clouser

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

— Robby Krieger

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

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

— Eric Maisel

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

— Rudolf Arnheim

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

— Joseph Joubert

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

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

— Josh Klinghoffer

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

— Rex Stout

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

— LIZ

Domestic power structures are shaped in good part by global arrangements.

— Thomas Pogge

All arrangements that are carried out between heaven and earth are carried out through angels.

— Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of…

— John Ruskin