#arrange

I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies. ↗

— Sammy Hagar

#come #ed #i #listen #lyrics

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

#album #any #arrangements #arranger #band

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal. ↗

— Stewart Alsop

#achieve #believes #defined #essentials #everything

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

#computer #crazy #drummer #good #guitar

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

#because #doing #down #figure #lazy

His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#constellations #head #his #into #made

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#arrangement #cats #happy #many #other

Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two. ↗

— Mel Torme

#arranger #author #career #directions #give

See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys. ↗

— Mel Torme

#band #did #garland #her #i

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#arrangement #never #notes #played #speech