Arrangements Quotes

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
Don DeLillo

Power, Secret, Furthering

The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.
Garrett Hardin

Social, Create, Coercion

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
Christopher Lasch

Marriage, Old, Marriages

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.
Thomas Cochrane

Respect, Happy, Individual

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.
Erykah Badu

Music, Musicians, Hear

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
Quincy Jones

Music, Home, Writing

There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away.
Jello Biafra

Work, Before, Big

One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.
Marcelene Cox

Friendship, Woman, Try

Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album.
Dweezil Zappa

Music, Work, Rock

Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are substantial melodies underneath the tracks - but almost nothing demands repeated listenings. Similarly, he always sounds like he's singing up a storm, but his voice glosses over the material, reducing most things to an uninteresting sameness.
Jon Landau

Nothing, Storm, Almost

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.
Mary Douglas

Religion, Done, Worry

There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.
Anne Campbell

Education, Act, Students

I've cried over string arrangements.
Janelle Monae

We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals.
Tommy Shaw

Music, Lazy, Down

I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
Barbara Kruger

Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records.
Duncan Sheik

British, Records, Wood

My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God's good green Earth. He's my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything - including certain janitorial chores!
Brett Somers

Good, God, Person

Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future.
Michael Mandelbaum

Future, Past, Political

I wrote 'Actor' all on the computer. I didn't touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had all these ornate arrangements, I didn't have any songs.
St. Vincent

Until, While, Touch

There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right.
Chuck Mangione

Together, Whatever, Playing

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

Write, Composer

I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements.
Dweezil Zappa

Music, Dad, Thought

I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.
Vanessa Carlton

Education, Learning, Past

And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.
Elvis Costello

Work, After, Write

It's just that, when I'm in Japan I could foretell to a certain degree what would be accepted, so I certainly don't come up with any crazy arrangements.
Utada Hikaru

Crazy, Degree, Japan

My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.
Robin Trower

When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy.
Joe Elliott

Change, End, Try

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.
Bill Wyman

Freedom, Creative, Ideas

I started trying to do my own music at home, and I was like, 'You know what, I can play the guitar, sort of. And I can do these things, sort of. And I can make these crazy noises on my computer, sort of. But I need a ridiculously good drummer. I need someone to help me with string arrangements.'
Steve Burns

Music, Good, Home

You know, if I wrote the arrangements two years from now, they would probably be a lot slicker.
Bruce Johnston

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