Arrangement Quotes

“I learned a lot about architecture in music school, about structure and form, and I think that influenced my arrangements.”

“What do you do with a popular melody? You can't just play it and repeat it. You have to do something with it.”

“I like to think that the strings are the cushion on which the vocal lies.”

“The idea was to make the singers an integral part of the orchestra, like another section.”

“I felt that if you took a popular song, a well-known song, and gave it a beautiful background, it would be even more beautiful.”

“We took Dylan's song and put a beat to it.”