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Shaping the sound behind the scenes

Several arranger quotes describe turning a composer's intention into something a producer and arranger can make Face the listener with real feeling.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

I Am
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by Otis Rush

Moments
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Quotes by Michael Bolton

Face
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by Marcelene Cox

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by Jay Kay

Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by Dweezil Zappa

Everything
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by Buddy Rich

One quote uses Children in a bouquet as a metaphor for how one element always resists the arranger's intended direction.

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