Arranging Quotes - Page 3

• I love Yamaha Clavinovas. I have them at home, in the studio and on tour with me. I find them ideal for all sorts of things: silent practice with headphones at home; writing; arranging and... just playing the blues!

  Jools Holland

  Home, Writing, Practice

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• Many individuals and organization units contribute to every large decision, and the very problem of centralization and decentralization is a problem of arranging the complex system into an effective scheme.

  Herbert Simon

  Organization, Decision, Problem

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• You know, when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997 I realized I had spent too long arranging my attitude.

  Carly Simon

  Attitude, Cancer, Long

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• Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

  Bertrand Russell

  Patterns, Schemes, Human Life

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.217, Psychology Press

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• Besides, going on tour and playing songs and arranging things, going to practice, it's all I know to be productive.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Song, Practice, Knows

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If there is something to permit the distinction between "solid" and "liquid" phases of modernity (that is, arranging them in an order of succession), it is the change in both the manifest and latent purpose behind the effort.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Order, Effort, Liquid

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• Blending is just like writing lyrics or finishing up the song, rearranging and arranging.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Song, Writing, Finishing

  Source: voidau.com

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• There was one sequence of days [making Lincoln in the Bardo] when I had halfway decided to use the historical nuggets, but I wasn't quite sure it would work. I'd be in my room for six or seven hours, cutting up bits of paper with quotes and arranging them on the floor, with this little voice in my head saying, "Hey, this isn't writing!" But at the end of that day, I felt that the resulting section was doing important emotional work

  George Saunders

  Writing, Cutting, Emotional

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• the redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue black.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Sunset, Night, Blue

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.225, Penguin

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• At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But in fact the whole idea works in reverse. The most deadly commitment of all is to be committed only to one's self. Some come to realize this after they are in the nursing home.

  John D. MacDonald

  Relationship, Home, Commitment

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• A comma . . . catches the gentle drift of the mind in thought, turning in on itself and back on itself, reversing, redoubling, and returning along the course of its own sweet river music; while the semicolon brings clauses and thoughts together with all the silent discretion of a hostess arranging guests around her dinner table.

  Pico Iyer

  Sweet, Rivers, Mind

  Pico Iyer (2011). “Tropical Classical: Essays from Several Directions”, p.431, Vintage

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• It's untrue to say the colors I use are not those of reality. They are real: The red I use is red; the green, green; blue, blue; and yellow, yellow. It's a matter of arranging them differently from the way I find them, but they are always real colors. So it's not true that when I tint a road or a wall, they become unreal. They stay real, though colored differently for my scene.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Wall, Real, Blue

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• We must never forget to pray, and to ask God to remember us when He is arranging things, so that we too may feel safe and have no anxiety about what is going to happen.

  Johanna Spyri

  Anxiety, May, Safe

  Johanna Spyri (1993). “Heidi Dievčatko Z Hôr”, p.200, Wordsworth Editions

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• I don't want any production credit. I think producers are overrated. They're for people who, first of all, don't know anything about music or arranging and have no ear for their own doings. They can't tell a good solo from a bad solo, stuff like that.

  Tom Verlaine

  Thinking, People, Credit

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• Lately I feel films are more and more like music. Music deals with abstractions and, like film, it involves time. It has many different movements, it has much contrast. And through music you learn that, in order to get a particular beautiful feeling, you have to have started far back, arranging certain things in a certain way. You can't just cut to it.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Cutting, Order

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• When I started making music, I made music in a very commercial space and I didn't have room to really explore things on my own terms. It took me awhile to create a little bubble where I could explore other things, and new things. When I did that, my tools were songwriting and arranging.

  Robyn

  Space, Tools, Littles

  "Robyn and Röyksopp: 'We Have Been Slightly Ahead of Our Time'". Interview with Nolan Feeney and Sam Lansky, time.com. August 20, 2014.

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• When arranging a tour around the United States I had decided to cross on the Titanic. It was rather a novelty to be on the largest ship yet launched. It was no exaggeration to say that it was quite easy to lose one's way on such a ship.

  Lawrence Beesley

  United States, Way, Ships

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• The laws of thermodynamics restrict all technologies, man's as well as nature's, and apply to all economic systems whether capitalist, communist, socialist, or fascist. We do not create or destroy (produce or consume) anything in a physical sense- we merely transform or rearrange. And the inevitable cost of arranging greater order in one part of the system (the human economy) is creating a more than offsetting amount of disorder elsewhere (the natural environment).

  Herman E. Daly

  Technology, Men, Law

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• The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.

  Arnold Bennett

  Life, Sacrifice, Effort

  Arnold Bennett (2006). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day”, p.19, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• I became friends on a social basis with a music professor (Dr. Alan Stein) who took a real interest in my work. He encouraged me in countless different ways, urged me to try different arranging styles, etc.

  John Keltonic

  Real, Style, Trying

  "A Conversation With Prolific Music Composer & Producer John Keltonic". Interview with Norm Goldman, www.bookpleasures.com. July 21, 2015.

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• There is the first satisfaction of arranging it on a bit of paper; after many, many false tries, false moves, finally you have the sentence you recognize as the one you are looking for.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Moving, Writing, Trying

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• The hardest part of a missionary career is to maintain regular, prayerful Bible study. Satan will always find you something to do, when you ought to be occupied about that - if it is only arranging a window blind!

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Careers, Missionary

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• I, and all the complex things around me, exist only because many things were assembled in a very precise way. The 'emergent' properties are not magical. They are really there and eventually they may start re-arranging the environments that generated them. But they don't exist 'in' the bits and pieces that made them; they emerge from the arrangement of those bits and pieces in very precise ways. And that is also true of the emergent entities known as "you" and "me".

  David Christian

  May, Way, Pieces

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• [On the socialites in New York in the Nineties who devoted themselves to politics, charities, and other volunteer work:] I never knew but one woman who devoted her life exclusively to the social game. She ended her days arranging dinner parties with paper dolls, a breakdown pitiful to watch.

  Margaret Case Harriman

  New York, Party, Games

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• Archery, fencing, spear fighting, all of the martial arts, tea ceremony, flower arranging...in all of these, correct breathing, correct balance, and correct stillness help to remake the individual. The basic aim is always the same: by tirelessly practicing a given skill, the student finally sheds the ego with its fears, worldly ambitions, and reliance on objective scrutiny - sheds it so completely that he becomes the instrument of a deeper power, from which mastery falls instinctively, without further effort on his part, like a ripe fruit.

  Karlfried Graf Durckheim

  Art, Flower, Fall

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