Arranger Quotes
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.
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.
It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.
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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.
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.
Children Quotes
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...
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.
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One quote uses Children in a bouquet as a metaphor for how one element always resists the arranger's intended direction.
