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The reason I wanted to become an organ player was because I heard Ray Charles play on Quincy Jones' arrangement of "One Mint Julep." I heard that sound, and it just struck me. I thought that's what I want to do with my life. That's the sound I want to try to make.

Booker T. Jones

Player, Trying, Rays

Source: www.pbs.org

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As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt's Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I enjoy playing non-piano music at the piano.

Michael Hersch

Symphony, Piano, Young

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Nothing is more important to England's arrangements for the World Cup than the state of David Beckham's foot.

Tony Blair

Feet, Important, World

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There was a time when hip-hop was its own musical principle, aside from sampling. Like the entire Wild Style break is instrumental. Kurtis Blow's earliest stuff was studio musicians playing. Whodini had a real clear sound, things like "five minutes of funk," stuff that you could write really beautiful, lush string and horn arrangements around, stuff that was just music.

Mos Def

Beautiful, Real, Writing

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Curses are exacting, legal arrangements of the spiritual world. Just like human contracts contain fine print and legally crafted language, satanic curses are filled with minutiae that required detailed voiding.

Bob Larson

Spiritual, Satanic, World

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It is a great pleasure to be performing with a big band. Those people took part in a group that played the music from the Kino Kultura album i.e. the soundtrack music I've been doing. It is difficult to organise them all and to have those people for a certain date since they all have their own obligations and arrangements. It is a great privilege to gather all those musicians at one place, especially these that I work with, since they perform regularly abroad, at weddings or are working somewhere else.

Vlatko Stefanovski

Somewhere Else, People, Musician

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You know when I started playing music as a young man I felt the need to be noticed and to prove myself. My motivation is much different now but what's still left is the love of music and the joy of entertaining people- the feeling that I make a difference, giving something back rather than just taking. Every year or two I come out with new music, or new arrangements of old music which keeps my show fresh.

Peter White

Motivation, Men, Years

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When I met with Peter Angell, the producer of the CD, we talked about my idea to do songs that I loved and songs that I wished I had recorded. Peter suggested that we pick some songs and see how they work with you and try to come up with arrangements and ideas about how you might want to do them.

Thelma Houston

Song, Cds, Ideas

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I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time. Americans have been manipulated into a space by those who profit from the arrangements of that system. People feel a conscious disease - a dis-ease or an unease - but I don't think they know what causes it.

Randall Robinson

Thinking, Class, Space

Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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As much as I try to grow as a lyricist, I tend to laugh at even calling myself that, because I think that my actual talents lie more in arrangements than they do words.

Zach Condon

Lying, Thinking, Laughing

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You always know when a real inspiration is behind the melody, arrangements, even lyrics. And I know that's really vague, but it's true.

Zach Condon

Real, Inspiration, Melody

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Property is my major investment. My accountant has put money into various long-term savings arrangements. To be honest, I am a bit vague about all that stuff.

Anne Robinson

Long, Saving, Stuff

"Anne Robinson: 'I was paid £300 a week for Points of View, now I'm worth £30m'". Interview with Roz Lewis, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 20, 2015.

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That as much as we're afraid of New World Order coming and of Canada and America joining together, that if we don't learn the lessons from the past then it doesn't matter what you want to call it: the North American Union or the South American Union, or the European Union, or the African Union... it doesn't matter what you call it as long as the arrangement remains the same.

Immortal Technique

Past, Order, America

Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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All the new songs have been written since the re-issue of Diamond Day. With my first royalties I got a Mac and a little mixer and a keyboard, figured out the basics of a music program, and gradually started to write and record the songs and the arrangements.

Vashti Bunyan

Song, Writing, Issues

Interview with Matthew Murphy, pitchfork.com. October 23, 2005.

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I prefer formal techniques, and use sonnets and rhyme, any manner of scheme to give a shape and order-of feeling as well as argument-to a poem. But all my life, I've also been a person who's made his bed in the morning and picks up the bath mat. That's what I mean by temperament. Whether genetic or acquired, I have a disposition to arrangements. One is born with this, as if with blue eyes or a weak heart. Do you think Allen Ginsberg ever put the cap back on his toothpaste?

J. D. McClatchy

Morning, Eye, Heart

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Melissa Pritchard's prose, that darkly lyrical firmament, is brightened by the dizzy luminous arrangement of her stars and satellites, her great gifts to us: humor, irony, kindness, brilliance.

Antonya Nelson

Stars, Kindness, Dizzy

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I once got a huge, expensive flower arrangement from a person I didn't like, who sent it out of pure guilt. It had a hideous bird-of-paradise in the middle, and I thought it would never fade and die. I hated it.

Maeve Binchy

Flower, Bird, Guilt

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Business is a primary arrangement on God's part for people to love one another and serve one another.

Dallas Willard

People, Love One Another, Primaries

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I think that freedom means freedom for everyone. As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish.

Dick Cheney

Daughter, Mean, Gay

"Cheney Offers Support For Gay Marriage" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 02, 2009.

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What I object to is the hyper-fetishized wedding day, the prioritizing of wedding over marriage. I have a real problem with couples spending far more time discussing the seating arrangement or the color of the bridesmaid's gowns than hashing out, for instance, their feelings about how they intend to handle questions of housework, child-rearing, finances and fidelity for the next four or five decades.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Children, Couple, Real

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I like songs that have like a little bit of quirkiness to them. What I like to do with songs, is kind of throw a little curveball in the lyrics or in the arrangement, to kind of give it a little twist to it.

John Legend

Song, Giving, Twists

Source: www.npr.org

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White supremacy is not just a social arrangement: it is a race-based faith.

James A. Forbes

Race, White, Social

"Why Blacks Know Race Is a Factor" by Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr., www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2011.

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In some settings, however, rampant opportunistic behavior severely limits what can be done jointly without major investments in monitoring and sanctioning arrangements.

Elinor Ostrom

Done, Limits, Investment

Elinor Ostrom (2015). “Governing the Commons”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

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For a moment I had a view of a world that seemed to wear a vast and dismal aspect of disorder, while, in truth, thanks to our unwearied efforts, it is as sunny an arrangement of small conveniences as the mind of man can conceive.

Joseph Conrad

Men, Views, Effort

Joseph Conrad (2015). “Lord Jim: Conrad's Collections”, p.187, 谷月社

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But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning. What shall we make of this: an edifice abandoned early in construction by the architect?

Carl Sagan

Details Of Life, Atheism, Poor Planning

Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.76, Ballantine Books

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