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Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records. -- Duncan Sheik
Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks. -- Norman Granz
It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak. -- Michael Bolton
Bill Justis was a saxophone player, good musician, arranger, and friend of mine who had a big hit called 'Raunchy.' -- Ray Stevens
I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough to do. -- Tom Scholz
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. -- Marcelene Cox
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
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
Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two. -- Mel Torme
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
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
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
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
Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an orchestrator, an arranger and a musician first. I know how to write and rewrite songs, and the genius is really in the rewriting. -- Nile Rodgers
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 context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album. -- Dweezil Zappa
I've known the glory of the stage and the glory of the spotlight. I still crave it. I want to be on 'American Bandstand' and 'Soul Train' as a solo artist. As a producer, songwriter and arranger, I help other artists say what they want to say. But on my records, I say what I want to say. -- Narada Michael Walden
Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records -- Duncan Sheik
It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak -- Michael Bolton
Bill Justis was a saxophone player, good musician, arranger, and friend of mine who had a big hit called Raunchy. -- Ray Stevens
Kids on a team are like flowers in a bouquet, there is always one that wants to face a different way than the arranger desires. -- John Kessel
Even before I became a recording artist, I did other things in music. I was a teacher, I did studio work, and I was an arranger and a producer. -- Jon Secada

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