- Melody
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't get into the underlying psyche of someone like Robin Williams, but he was at that level of fame where he was somewhat self-protective.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have a team who I respect immensely, so if they have opinions, I'm interested in hearing them.
- Hard Lesson
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I'd get very invested in things. It's a hard lesson to learn, but you have to know that if you want to find gold, you've got to love the process of digging.
- Gentleman
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a brief period, I had a gentleman's farm in Pennsylvania, but even then, I kept a place in New York.
- Networking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always a composer since I was a kid, but the BMI Workshop is where the networking really all stems from. So many writers and influences and ways of communicating all sprang out of the time I was a member of that workshop.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I loved classical music. Composers like Beethoven were like rock stars to me. Then there were the real rock stars: The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, and Bob Dylan.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's plenty of examples of films where they're greenlit to move forward, and they want to get X actor. And they don't get X actor, so they go with Y, and it doesn't turn out to be as good of a movie as it should have been.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is a gestalt. Songs are a life force and they have specific vocabulary to them. You hear a few notes, and they take you into a world of association.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have lots of personal feelings of my own, but at this stage in my life and career, I'm very much driven by assignment.
- Broader
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
The job, when you write film underscore, is to be ignored. That comes with the gig, no question about it.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever I gain from writing lyrics, I feel I lose a little bit for the musical aspect by having that lyrical burden on me. But when I'm liberated from worrying about the words, frankly, I feel I'm a better composer.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my collaborations, certainly post - Howard Ashman but even with Howard, are music first.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020