#arranger

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires. ↗

— Marcelene Cox

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I picked all the tunes before I went to Memphis, and the band was all set. Willie Mitchell is an arranger like I am, and he let me do what I had to do. ↗

— Otis Rush

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

— Duncan Sheik

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Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks. ↗

— Norman Granz

#does #ellington #leader #movie #musician

It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak. ↗

— Michael Bolton

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We spent a month in LA using a pool of musicians, a string arranger called Benjamin Wright, some great backing singers, and it gave tracks like Dynamite, which was written there, that kind of flavour. ↗

— Jay Kay

#backing #benjamin #called #dynamite #flavour

When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#bought #cut #engineer #i #kid

But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom. ↗

— Buddy Rich

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Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff. ↗

— Benmont Tench

#arranger #barely #easier #else #go

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

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