#arrange

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself. ↗

— Diane Arbus

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I write arrangements. I'm sort of a wannabe composer. ↗

— Joshua Bell

#composer #i #i write #sort #write

There's something to be learned by listening and absorbing and watching before you start telling the people who have been there how to rearrange chairs. ↗

— Anne Northup

#before #chairs #how #learned #listening

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design. ↗

— Richard Powers

#arrange #constraint #design #dullness #each

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

#arranger #because #becomes #chart #create

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#amount #biggest #disorder #far #far less

I'm in the process of working out an arrangement to make some very, very, very small films in the midst of all these films and maybe that will help. But you get tired of talking. You just want to do it. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

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I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President. ↗

— Arlen Specter

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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

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