Orchestrate Quotes

I always find music guys writing about love. Think of something else for a change. I`m sorry, but it`s been done, and it does work and it`s good and all that, but I think something else would be nice. I tend not to write lyrics, cause I`m a bad lyricist. I sort of write the music, and I can orchestrate the whole thing, but the words, (singing) "I woke up this morning . . . " Awful stuff.

(Also a songwriter (and guitarist), she`s working on a solo CD.) It`s kind of up in the air, ... I`m having a hard time; I want to make it special. Musical theatre is my first love. My writing is sort of folk-rock. I get compared to Tori Amos and Joni Mitchell '” though I`m not nearly as talented as either. Neither a straight-pop album nor a musical-theatre album seems the way to go. I want to take my music and orchestrate it in a kind of old fashioned style, and take some standards and `popularize` them '” do a true crossover. I`m working on it.

(Also a songwriter (and guitarist), she`s working on a solo CD.) It`s kind of up in the air, ... I`m having a hard time; I want to make it special. Musical theatre is my first love. My writing is sort of folk-rock. I get compared to Tori Amos and Joni Mitchell though I`m not nearly as talented as either. Neither a straight-pop album nor a musical-theatre album seems the way to go. I want to take my music and orchestrate it in a kind of old fashioned style, and take some standards and `popularize` them do a true crossover. I`m working on it.

Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use all sorts of stratagems which in the end prove completely incapable of staving off chaos.

I do not attempt to orchestrate my career. I let God do that. I like horror movies. To me, they are a very legitimate place for an actor to work. It`s a great arena for me to experiment, to play a range of different funky characters. I like what I`m doing and I hope it shows on the screen. Acting is a great gig. It pays well, I get to meet some nice people and it allows me to play a lot of golf. I`m a real lucky guy.