Orchestrations Quotes & Sayings

I'm somebody who grew up listening to a lot of musical theater, so getting to finally write musical theater songs and songs that sound that way - the emphasis being on the storytelling, but the arrangements and the orchestrations can be really varied - I found that to be, actually, a really joyful discovery. — Sara Bareilles

Anyone that goes to battle goes to battle knowing the mindset and tactics of their enemies. — Brad Thor

One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career. — Bette Davis

Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, Do you care about the same truth? — C.S. Lewis

Duke Ellington is my choice for many reasons. Nobody has written so many great pieces of music, which are everlasting, and he has made them available to the world through his orchestrations of his work in a unique way. Lastly, he was himself a fine pianist. He covers the entire musical spectrum with his genius. — Marian McPartland

I'm under a super microscope. I've got my friends to keep me cool. As long as you've got friends, you've got nothing to worry about. — LeBron James

There are lots of stories in pop music, lots of lush orchestrations, lots of attention to detail. You just have to know where to find them. The best stuff is never overt. — Stephanie D'Abruzzo

You've mistaken the stars reflected on the surface of the lake at night for the heavens. — Andrzej Sapkowski

You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work.
But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: This is beautiful. That is Architecture. Art enters in. — Le Corbusier

When you have cat stealers over for tea, you clean the house, buy bagels and cream cheese, and try to figure out how to trap your guests in a lie. — Caroline Paul

Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past. — Gene Wolfe

I can write orchestrations, but I can't sight-read music and play at the same time. I don't have enough facility. — Elvis Costello