#arrangement

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

— Joshua Bell

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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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I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible. ↗

— Les Baxter

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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past. ↗

— Mel Torme

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