Orchestration Quotes

• I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Masters
  • Orchestration
  • Ravel

• 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
  • Soul
  • Creator
  • Orchestration

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

  

  Billy Joel
  • Arrangement
  • Orchestration
  • Serenader

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

  

  Bill Luff
  • Perspective
  • Shadows
  • Orchestration

• 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
  • Create
  • Meaning

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

  

  William Everson
  • Attributes
  • Sanctity
  • Wholes

• I can write orchestrations, but I can't sight-read music and play at the same time. I don't have enough facility.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Music
  • Facility
  • Orchestration