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Quotes About Orchestration

I don't think so much about verbal comedy. I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always thinking about how to make cinema, not good talking - although I want good talking. I'm much more interested in framing, composition, and orchestration of bodies in space, and so forth.
~ Alexander Payne
As with a symphony, it is important to be able to contribute your part while simultaneously listening to and blending in with others.
~ Wayne Jacobsen
PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, "He presided at the piccolo."
~ Ambrose Bierce
I look at people like musical instruments. I set people to music.
~ Elizabeth Swados
Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.
~ William Everson
Furthermore, the initial page, always crucial, passed every test, with its promises and divisions, its portentous opening paragraph like the great door of a church, its exotic setting and strange names, the rolling orchestration of its prose.
~ William H. Gass
Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.
~ Johannes Brahms
George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.
~ Paul McCartney
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
~ Blaine Lee
A product can live on one great idea. An interior needs 1,000 great ideas to really live, which makes interior design a whole orchestration of this art of juxtaposition, placement, and combination.
~ Marcel Wanders
I'm also very pleased that we were able to include a full orchestrated score for Dragon's Lair 3D. The 40 different music pieces blend with the action to make you feel more a part of the whole adventure.
~ Don Bluth
I would love to work with Joanna Newsom on a ballet. I think that would be amazing. She has a gift for orchestrating and composing, and I think she would be really engaging to work with.
~ Justin Peck
When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.
~ Atul Gawande
We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and the people we work with.
~ Graeme Murphy
I enjoy visiting building sites. Unlike the ordered anonymity of office bureaucracy or the featureless regularity of a factory assembly line, a building site appears disorderly and chaotic. In fact, there is organization, but it is a loose orchestration of many separate trademen, working side by side but not necessarily together.
~ Witold Rybczynski
I had considered orchestrating 'The Long and Winding Road' but I decided against it. I therefore want it altered to these specifications: Strings, horns, voices and all added noises to be reduced in volume. Vocal and Beatle instrumentation to be brought up in volume. Harp to be removed completely at the end of the song and original piano notes to be substituted. Don't ever do it again. Signed, PAUL McCARTNEY c.c. Phil Spector, John Eastman
~ Allan Kozinn
You can only learn orchestration if you have the possibility of using an orchestra.
~ Krzysztof Penderecki
There's really powerful and potentially dominating forces when you make a film that can harm it if you're incapable of orchestrating things.
~ Bennett Miller
People crave predictability, and when you design and use systems, you give people predictability. More importantly, when you build systems, they can help you orchestrate, and orchestration helps you create the habits that continuously improve the systems!
~ Michael Gerber
Never ignore a detail or leave one to chance. Orchestrate them into a spectacle and no one will notice how manipulative you are being.
~ Robert Greene
Stillness is the first requirement for manifesting your desires, because in stillness lies your connection to the field of pure potentiality that can orchestrate an infinity of details for you.
~ Deepak Chopra
True leadership is the orchestration of truth into action to shine Light into darkness.
~ Orrin Woodward
I've done some scoring in the past, but I want to get into it on a bigger level - a Danny Elfman level.
~ DJ Premier
the beginning, directs and orchestrates millions of events and circumstances every day.
~ Jerry Bridges