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Quotes About Orchestration

And, all these things need to be coordinated; so we all need to work together, have timers going and everything so we're all coordinated and get this piece of orchestration done.
~ Duane G. Carey
Producing isn't just making beats on a beat machine. It's bringing together these string players with this flute player and this singer, and telling them to all work in the key of C major... You bring these people together and let them all cook.
~ Logic
I've always loved mixing Middle Eastern instruments into a classical orchestra.
~ Alexandre Desplat
We're more about other things over odd timings: orchestration, composition, horn/vocal arrangements - that's where we get super weird.
~ Synyster Gates
I can almost see the music. It comes in the form of colors - colors jump out at me, and that translates into notes. They come fully formed: the orchestration parts, not just the melodies. Even though they're not always the right ones to use, the initial idea comes like that.
~ Ramin Djawadi
I don't play beats. I hate playing beats. I'm an orchestration drummer. I'm a musical drummer.
~ Bill Ward
I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.
~ Esa-Pekka Salonen
I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
~ Abel Korzeniowski
I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.
~ Dido Armstrong
The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.
~ Hubert Humphrey
When I write a tune - and it's been like this for many years - I always hear in the back of my head some sort of vague, orchestrated, fully fleshed-out big-band version of the song with other parts going on.
~ John Scofield
On 'Lost,' I write a score and orchestrate it on days one and two; I record it on day three. In animation and film and videogames, you have a little more time to work things through.
~ Michael Giacchino
Every director knows it is his job to be manipulative. When you make an edit, you are trying to manipulate.
~ John Lee Hancock
Battle in the Snow has an unusual orchestration calling for five piccolos, five oboes, a battery of eight percussion, two grand pianos, and two or three harps, in addition to the normal orchestral complement," Williams notes. "This was necessary in order to achieve a bizarre sound, a mechanical, brutal sound for the sequence showing Imperial walkers.
~ J.W. Rinzler
A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.
~ Laurie Colwin
this Golden Age in Germany music, too, had become a great art, with such immortal names as Mozart, Gluck, Haydn, and Beethoven; and the period of great orchestration also had commenced.[1]
~ Unknown
The world, in those of its sectors which realize a structure, is comparable to a symphony.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The art side of leadership involves orchestrating another performer's science to produce the desired result.
~ Orrin Woodward
True leadership is the orchestration of truth into action to shine Light into darkness.
~ Orrin Woodward
Action w/o orchestration is burn out; orchestration w/o action is management; action with orchestration is leadership.
~ Orrin Woodward