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Orchestration is part of the very soul of the work. A work is thought out in terms of the orchestra, certain tone-colors being inseparable from it in the mind of its creator and native to it from the hour of its birth. -- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. -- Thornton Wilder
I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen
I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece. -- Gavin Bryars
I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras. -- Dido Armstrong
Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty. -- Sophie Hunger
I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary. -- Abel Korzeniowski
The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment. -- Jacques Ellul
And, all these things need to be coordinated; so we all need to work together, have timers going and everything so we're all coordinated and get this piece of orchestration done. -- Duane G. Carey
Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration. -- Johannes Brahms
When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don't usually come up with a similar kind of thing. -- Patty Duke
The music for 'The Departed' could have been played by an orchestra, but you make a decision about orchestration based on the context of the film. You want the music to broaden the scope of a film, not just repeat what you're seeing. -- Howard Shore
The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected to contribute to the orchestration in progress, not simply to execute the score as it is written and rehearsed. -- Albert Murray
I don't think so much about verbal comedy. I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always thinking about how to make cinema, not good talking - although I want good talking. I'm much more interested in framing, composition, and orchestration of bodies in space, and so forth. -- Alexander Payne
Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes." -- William Everson
Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes. -- William Everson
Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society. -- Robert McKee
The perfect orchestration of the symphony of life is one of the Creator's greatest and most beautiful miracles. -- Suzy Kassem
I see my subject as an orchestration of shapes, patterns, shade, cast shadows, tonal groupings and aerial perspective. -- Bill Luff
You are a valuable instrument in the orchestration of your own world, and the overall harmony of the universe. -- Suzy Kassem
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God. -- Quincy Jones
Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing. -- Billy Joel
Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing. -- Gyorgy Kepes
You hear sounds and orchestration, it's ... the fastest way, I think, to your emotions, even if you don't understand the language of the song. -- Sandra Bullock
I am a musical-theater nut. When the lyrics, orchestration, and performance all come together just right, I come alive and can feel every cell in my body. -- Kelly Stables
Our hearts resonate at the same frequency as the earth and the universe. Therefore, we are all valuable instruments in the orchestration of the world and its harmony. -- Suzy Kassem
If I have any talent, it's in the artistic end of football. The variation of movement of 11 players and the orchestration of that facet of football is beautiful to me. -- Bill Walsh
I wish on one of the stars for divine orchestration and save the rest of them for all of the other girls in the world who will feel like I do tonight. -- Jennifer Elisabeth

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