Vocal arrangements are something I'm working a lot with for the new songs.
American radio is the reverse of the Shakespearean stage. In Shakespeare's time the world's greatest dramas were acted with the most primitive technical arrangements; on the American air the world's most primitive writing is performed under perfect technical conditions.
My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.
Most impediments to scientific understanding are conceptual locks, not factual lacks. Most difficult to dislodge are those biases that escape our scrutiny because they seem so obviously, even ineluctably, just. We know ourselves best and tend to view other creatures as mirrors of our own constitution and social arrangements. ( Aristotle , and nearly two millennia of successors, designated the large bee that leads the swarm as a king.
Stalking along from log to log, or plunging their long legs in the oozy swamp, two large herons paid no attention to my presence, but occupied themselves with their own fishing arrangements, as if their wilderness were their own.
He seemed unaware of the messiness of the arrangement.
We are embarking on the biggest project in human civilisation," he said. "We must ensure that the United States. . . is part of such post-2012 arrangements.
Perhaps," he said, "we should discuss our arrangements, then.
I like to explore a lot of textural, arrangement aspects in the studio.
Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce.
My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.
Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.
The only standard we have for judging all of our social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements as just or unjust, as good or bad, as better or worse, derives from our conception of the good life for man on earth, and from our conviction that, given certain external conditions, it is possible for men to make good lives for themselves by their own efforts.
I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
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.
There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.
I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe composer.
We do not believe in quotas. They would not only be undesirable, they would be illegal. There is legal protection for the autonomy of universities in running their own admission arrangements.
