Arranger Quotes

It`s understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.

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.

(on her MGM record contract) I never paid for anything. There was never any recoupment for all the sessions I did. Not one penny. I had four people I hired to work for me on letters and on foreign releases. They paid for every photograph and I kept the photos. Travel, everything, was paid for. Even if it wasn`t on MGM business, it was paid for. Gowns-bills were sent to MGM because I needed them for album covers. I bought them, and wore them. I could record where I wanted, however many songs I wanted, in whatever country, in whatever language, with whatever arranger, and then the bottom line was, if I didn`t like any of it, I didn`t have to release it. I didn`t abuse it. I tried to release even the garbage so that I wouldn`t just be recording and not releasing stuff.

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.