Words matter. These are the best Orchestration Quotes from famous people such as Ramin Djawadi, Johannes Brahms, Michael Gerber, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Gavin Bryars, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I can almost see the music. It comes in the form of colors – colors jump out at me, and that translates into notes. They come fully formed: the orchestration parts, not just the melodies. Even though they’re not always the right ones to use, the initial idea comes like that.
Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind’s eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.
People crave predictability, and when you design and use systems, you give people predictability. More importantly, when you build systems, they can help you orchestrate, and orchestration helps you create the habits that continuously improve the systems!
I’ve learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.
I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.
And, all these things need to be coordinated; so we all need to work together, have timers going and everything so we’re all coordinated and get this piece of orchestration done.
We’re more about other things over odd timings: orchestration, composition, horn/vocal arrangements – that’s where we get super weird.
You can only learn orchestration if you have the possibility of using an orchestra.
The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected to contribute to the orchestration in progress, not simply to execute the score as it is written and rehearsed.
It’s writing songs within the structure of telling a story, so it becomes a platform for diverse songwriting, for a writing process that’s broader than just figuring out a song. You’re also dealing with always pushing the story forward, with casting the voices, with the orchestration, with the arrangements.
I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.
I studied film scoring and orchestration and conducting and arranging in my twenties, and I scored a lot of television shows and other things.
