Music Arranger

🇺🇸Stevie Wonder

Music

b. 1950

"I'm happier than the morning sun,And that's the way you said that it would be,If I should ever bring you inside my life."

🇫🇷Michel Legrand

Music

1932–2019

"The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know."

Björk

Music

b. 1965

"One day, it will happen | One day, one day | It will all make sense."

🇯🇵Joe Hisaishi

Music

b. 1950

"I actually don't like playing the piano or conducting the orchestra.There is always an exchange of energies,which is not even.It's one against 80."

🇬🇧Brian Wilson

Music

1943–2025

"It's funny how people are pickin' up on our music now, you know? I think it's wonderful that people like our music."

🇬🇧Joan Armatrading

Music

b. 1950

"In America you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same."

🇺🇸Artie Shaw

Music

1910–2004

"It became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that a so-called swing band played something melodic and still gave it a beat."

🇺🇸Sun Ra

Music

1914–1993

"Proper evaluations of words and letters in their phonetic and associated sense can bring the people of earth to the clear light of pure cosmic wisdom."

🇺🇸Ray Charles

Music

1930–2004

"The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done."

🇺🇸Duke Ellington

Music

Harlem Renaissance

1899–1974

"By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with."

🇺🇸Dave Bartholomew

Music

1918–2019

"Dave Bartholomew Interview NAMM Oral History Library"

🇺🇸Lucinda Williams

Music

b. 1953

"I know—they treat it like it’s a big phenomena. It would be like, “all-girl band” or “girl drummer” and I’d be like, “Why can’t you just say drummer?” Female this, female that. It’s an oddity."