Arrangements Quotes

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

The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.

To play with a band all of the time, just about nightly, was good for me because I wrote lots of arrangements and I got a lot of my transposition and chords ironed out.

There is, then, a logical priority about the arrangements, and logic has nothing to do with time.

But I think traveling around and going around the world and making arrangements for moving around is the most difficult thing, 'cuz you don't know what's going to happen.

A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing seems to be the last of one's priorities.

I like to explore a lot of textural, arrangement aspects in the studio.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.

We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we lack utterly in imagination.

Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.

Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.

But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.

I'm not a perfect song writer, but I am song writing problems with dynamics, instrument change and arrangements.

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.

There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.

Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.

If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit of the law and to the principle of transparency on which it is based.

Perhaps," he said, "we should discuss our arrangements, then.

There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right.

I think a lot of that album ["Tonight" ] is still very good . . . the songs, but I think I was indifferent to the arrangements.

Whatever new arrangements are enacted for the Eurozone, they must work fairly for those inside it and out.

We do not believe in quotas. They would not only be undesirable, they would be illegal. There is legal protection for the autonomy of universities in running their own admission arrangements.

My babies and I benefited greatly from our nightly bonding sessions and co-sleeping arrangements, and I'm glad I did it for as long as I did.

What I'm going for with the string arrangements for my Antarctic symphony is a pun here.

There have been times when I've made special arrangements to meet people in music, film, business or politics, and I'll continue to do so if the people are sincere.

None of us sees history fully; none of us is adequately aware of how the arrangements of the present moment foreclose the possibilities of others to fully live their only lives.

In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn't really have quite enough nuance.

What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.

It is important to recognize the limited ability of the legal system to prescribe and enforce the quality of social arrangements.

Our building practices for the past century have been plain stupid - especially the glorification of the single-family house in a subdivision, at the expense of all other typologies and arrangements.

We will have to make new arrangements, or revive bygone ones. We may, for another example, see the return of the boarding house.

We still listen to the original lush arrangements with the orchestras.

Vocal arrangements are something I'm working a lot with for the new songs.

I have toured with Klemens Marktl, playing his original compositions and arrangements. He is a wonderful drummer, a writer possessing a high degree of creativity, and an assured band leader.

There may be arrangements to have me retired but I don't know. Things happen that I enjoy doing, and as long as I enjoy doing them I'll go about doing them, I guess.

I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe composer.

Singing in Spanish is much more honest, much closer to my roots. For me, Spanish is essential. I still think in Spanish, dream in Spanish. It's the melodies and arrangements that transmit meaning.

If you're ordering me an edible arrangement to say thanks, I'd prefer a meat one.

but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.

In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style security arrangements.

As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements.

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.

In war, the general alone can judge of certain arrangements. It depends on him alone to conquer difficulties by his own superior talents and resolution.

When it came time to sequence the album, the new arrangements really demanded a different order. They were so different than they were before that the old sequence didn't work anymore.

Even with Neptune City, I feel like if you strip down all the arrangements, I feel like each of my songs is always going to be, at its core, either a country song or a blues song.

George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.

My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.

I'm in a state of my life when the essential is very important to me. I don't like long songs with complicated arrangements and breaks anymore.

Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.