Top Arranger Quotes
When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer.
Lenny Kravitz
It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.
Michael Bolton
Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records.
Duncan Sheik
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.
Buddy Rich
I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that.
Bobby Vinton
Duncan Sheik 
Marcelene Cox 
Michael Bolton 
Otis Rush 
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Lenny Kravitz 
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Buddy Rich 
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When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer.
Lenny Kravitz 
59% of people like this quote
It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.
Michael Bolton
59% of people like this quote
Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records.
Duncan Sheik
55% of people like this quote
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.
Buddy Rich
53% of people like this quote
I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that.
Bobby Vinton
52% of people like this quote
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.
Jay Kay
52% of people like this quote
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.
Otis Rush
52% of people like this quote
Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.
Benmont Tench
45% of people like this quote
Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.
Norman Granz
45% of people like this quote