Arranging Quote by Maynard James Keenan

It's a particular skill, I think , doing backing vocals. You're blending the vocals between the gaps, between the music.

— Lisa Hannigan

That's such a wonderful thing about the mixing process is when you write the demo or the track, [and] it sort of goes through…

— Lizzy Plapinger

Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.

— Kaskade

“approach and technique, or else you risk mixing them together and end with up a style of music called fusion,”

— Damien Peters

You have to take from each artist what works for you, and then create your own sound. You put different combinations in the mix…

— Al B. Sure

If you write in the same way over and over again, like, in the same place with the same techniques and with the same…

— Billie Eilish

Mixing is figuring out what is essential to the moment and subordinating everything else

— Randy Thom

I find it interesting when different styles of music are fused together effortlessly to create something new and wonderful.

— Jonita Gandhi

Playing with words is like combining different notes in music.

— Shankar Mahadevan

It's not a normal recording shift where you do a song and you get a day to tweak it and the third day you…

— Rodney Jerkins

Composition is selective improvisation.

— Igor Stravinsky

I don't think about, "How does this song that has more of an electronic mix prefix to a song that has a full orchestra…

— Regina Spektor