- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music Quotes
Quotes on music and creative calling.
These quotes describe music as near-constant background for some, and as a true calling for others - one line simply states a feeling of being destined for it. A few discuss resisting one narrow sound in favor of exploring many styles. Related reading includes Funny Quotes.
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- Giving Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.
- Moments
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music controls moods and accents life's moments. It's necessary for every situation.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's just always been a hobby of ours to make music that makes us happy and excites us when we make it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find inspiration in many places. Sometimes music gives me the kernel of a story. Sometimes it's dissatisfaction with the plot of a movie or a book that gets me thinking. Sometimes it's love of a movie or book.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, I played the piano and studied classical music and jazz. I wanted to be a concert pianist, and if I'd devoted myself to it, I could have been. But it would have been too much work and a very lonely life.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't thrilled about 'The Sound Of Music' - not the movie itself but my role in it. Captain Von Trapp was a bore, and they tried to help by giving it a bit more cynicism, but it wasn't my favourite role. I enjoyed the music, and I loved Julie Andrews.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mathematics is like music. Neither needs to be useful. It is enough that each gives delight to those who seek delight from it.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything else - music, cinematography, costumes, design, acting - can be judged at face value. But when you're looking at editing, you don't know what the totality of the material was, and you don't know the working dynamic between a director and an editor - whether the editor was micromanaged or given free rein. It's very difficult.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.
- Both Worlds
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I had a Beatles poster and a Bela Lugosi as Dracula poster, so both worlds always appealed to me. Horror allows you to do things as a composer than you're able to do in no other style of movie. The music has to be aggressive. You can't tiptoe around. It has to be incredibly focused dramatically - no time for second thoughts.
- Stage
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- Nov 07, 2020
In horror movies, you can write music that if it was performed on the concert stage would have the audience running out of the room with their fingers in their ears. But in a movie, all of a sudden it becomes incredibly accessible and appreciated.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film composers are the most prolific music makers on this planet, and most of us are, like, losing our minds if we're doing five or more movies in a year.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had a fascination for everything surrounding things that are unexplainable. Not surprising that my first movie was a horror film, even though, of course, at the time I had no experience writing horror music.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.
- Heavy Metal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.
- Different Kinds
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like many different kinds of music. My favourite band is Radiohead, and I'm also a giant Jeff Buckley fan.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never really a nerd. I'm not really into comic books or Dungeons and Dragons or any of that kind of stuff. I was in drama class, and I'm a big movie and music buff. And I'm into sports.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020