Film Music quotes
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Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.
-- Alex North -
I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!
-- Chanel Iman -
I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen -
Electronic music lends itself to an abstract way of storytelling, so it keeps evolving. Theres a whole movement truly driving music further and there is no other music innovating as much as film music
-- Hans Zimmer -
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The fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can be as good as the composer is gifted.
-- Jerry Goldsmith -
I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other non- film music.
-- Kailash Kher -
In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.
-- Ken Burns -
I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.
-- Marc Newson -
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I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.
-- Randy Newman -
There's a whole gamut of things to do with film music that don't apply when you're making a record or if you're writing a concert piece or something.
-- Henry Jackman -
The consumption of information, films, music has been changing in recent decades. It's hard to know what will become the film that can not easily reach [audiences].
-- Lucrecia Martel -
For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.
-- Nico Muhly -
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It's a funny thing with the inspiration thing. There's always loads of music around that I absolutely love and films going back to when I started making film music in the mid-80's.
-- Steven Price -
I can't really say that film music inspired me; it is more the films themselves, in connection with the music.
-- Volker Bertelmann -
Film music really is about point of view and you can shift it wherever you want really depending on how you look at it.
-- Howard Shore
