Quotes About Arrangement

My parents are both scientists. They like order.

I'm a pushover for cleaning items that come in packages of three or more.

Everything has got a place in my house. If something is moved I get a panic attack.

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.

For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness, like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.

If you fail to plan you are planning to fail.

In terms of the structure of the

Moving students around on a seating chart is like playing a game of Sudoku. No mater how you set up the chart, you still end up with children who should be separated.

I have a visual sense for the music. It has to stay true to a certain sense of period. I rely on a sense of colors and mood in my approach to the arrangement.

I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal part should be in the record. This was all emerging as the song was emerging.

If you listen to my tapes, you'd hear 14 different ways to arrange the rhythm guitar behind the harmony vocal, and then 14 different ways with a different vocal. You'd have to really be a music lover to sit through that and find it entertaining. I enjoy it, but I'm easy to please.

When I write a song and come up with an arrangement and a vocal part, it's always a challenge trying to find a singer who can interpret it sort of the way that I hear it, and it's a very difficult thing to do. I mean, singing is like playing an instrument - everybody does it a little bit different - singing maybe even more so.

As far as favorite 'overall package' record of all time, I'd have to say 'My Girl' by The Temptations. I like everything about it, not only the composition - but the arrangement, the production, the lead vocals, the background vocals, the horns, the strings. That one I listen to over and over again.

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.

We've recorded over our voices once and double the harmonies, make them thick. The Four Freshmen do that.

There's nothing I love more in the world than layering voices.

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.

I have to write in sequence and only in sequence.

'Shooting Star' started out as the arrangement on the record, and it's developed into a real audience-participation song, just from playing it.

I never shop - my wife takes care of all of that.

An agenda is not a bad thing.

My wife, Barbara, is great. She arranges when I do work that I have a day off between performances.