Orchestration Quotes

• You are a valuable instrument in the orchestration of your own world, and the overall harmony of the universe. Always be in command of your music. Only you can control and shape its tone. If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

  Suzy Kassem

  Song, World, Shapes

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• There's nothing else exactly like it in any other art form, the orchestration of so many different elements. It's endlessly fascinating what can be done editorially. You can create meaning where there was none, you can create feeling where there was none, you can create narrative where there was none. Two frames can be the difference between something that works and something that doesn't. It's fascinating.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Art, Two, Differences

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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

  Color, Soul, Mind

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• I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

  Abel Korzeniowski

  Trying, Use, Instruments

  "Golden Globe Nominee Abel Korzeniowski Talks Madonna, ‘W.E.,’ Score" by Bill Desowitz, www.indiewire.com. January 11, 2012.

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• 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

  Eye, Ideas, Mind

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• I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.

  Gavin Bryars

  Thinking, Details, Pieces

  Klassiknet Interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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• Straightaway the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God.

  Johannes Brahms

  Ideas, Flow

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• You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.

  Quincy Jones

  Music, Study, Harmony

  "Grammy Legend Award". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 28, 2000.

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• The cognitive functioning of a human brain depends on a delicate orchestration of many factors, especially during the critical stages of embryo development-and it is much more likely that this self-organizing structure, to be enhanced, needs to be carefully balanced, tuned, and cultivated rather than simply flooded with some extraneous potion.

  Nick Bostrom

  Self, Brain, Needs

  Nick Bostrom (2014). “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies”, p.43, OUP Oxford

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• The Universe knows all things and is responding to the vibration that you are sending. When you are sending your vibration on purpose, you are orchestrating what the Universe is aligning for you.

  Esther Hicks

  Law Of Attraction, Purpose, Vibrations

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• Take your Inner Being everywhere you go. If you take your Inner Being to the party, it's going to be a good party! If you take your Inner Being, the food that you eat will be received perfectly by the cells of your body. Every word that comes out of your mouth will be beneficial to everyone who hears them with their ears - or with their vibration. Don't go anywhere without your Inner Being. That's what "Allowing" is. Always having your Inner Being present. And then, anything else that happens is always orchestrated perfectly by Law of Attraction.

  Esther Hicks

  Party, Law Of Attraction, Cells

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• 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

  Working Together, Needs, Done

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• 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

  Television, Radio, Influence

  "Jan. 6, 1912: Birth of the Supreme Tech Skeptic", www.wired.com. January 5, 2009.

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• 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

  Heart, Commitment, World

  "Truth Is Crying". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2008.

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• Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.

  William Everson

  Sanctity, Attributes, Multiple

  William Everson (1988). “The Excesses of God: Robinson Jeffers as a Religious Figure”, p.95, Stanford University Press

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• Wagner exploited all forms of expression at a composer's disposal - harmony, dynamics, orchestration - to the extreme. His music is highly emotional, and at the same time Wagner has extraordinary control over the effect he achieves.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Emotional, Expression, Dynamics

  Interview with Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

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• The disappearance of theology from the life of the Church, and the orchestration of that disappearance by some of its leaders, is hard to miss today, but oddly enough, not easy to prove. It is hard to miss in the evangelical world--in the vacuous worship that is so prevalent, for example, in the shift form God to the self as the central focus of faith, in the psychologized preaching that follows this shift, in the erosion of its conviction, in its strident pragmatism, in its inability to think incisively about the culture, in its reveling in the irrational.

  David F. Wells

  Thinking, Erosion, Self

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• I've always felt that music is more expressive than dialogue. I've always said that my best dialogue and screenwriter is Ennio Morricone. Because, many times, it is more important a note or an orchestration than a line said.

  Sergio Leone

  Important, Lines, Notes

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• 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. My goal is always what Chuck Jones wanted his Warner Brothers cartoons to be, which was if you turn down the sound, you could still tell what's going on. I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.

  Alexander Payne

  Brother, Thinking, Talking

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. November 15, 2011.

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• Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

  Thornton Wilder

  Literature, Platitudes

  In Time 12 Jan. 1953

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• Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.

  Billy Joel

  Needs, Easy, Stage

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• The essence and the glory of the free market is that individual firms and businesses, competing on the market, provide an ever-changing orchestration of efficient and progressive goods and services: continually improving products and markets, advancing technology, cutting costs, and meeting changing consumer demands as swiftly and as efficiently as possible.

  Murray Rothbard

  Cutting, Technology, Essence

  Murray Newton Rothbard (1978). “For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto”, p.242, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I see my subject as an orchestration of shapes, patterns, shade, cast shadows, tonal groupings and aerial perspective.

  Bill Luff

  Perspective, Shadow, Shapes

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• Sauces comprise the honor and glory of French cookery. They have contributed to its superiority, or pre-eminence, which is disputed by none. Sauces are the orchestration and accompaniment of a fine meal, and enable a good chef or cook to demonstrate his talent.

  Curnonsky

  Honor, Meals, Sauce

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• 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

  Beautiful, Football, Player

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