Ennio Morricone quotes

“I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.”
-- Ennio Morricone

Source : "Mozart of film music" by Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.

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“There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.”
-- Ennio Morricone

Source : "Mozart of film music". Interview With Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.

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“Popularity doesn't bother me. It attests to the affection and comprehension of the public. The important thing is to retain the pioneer spirit. I profoundly love the profession, and I work on each film as if it were the first - and the last. Giving the best of myself. Many of the 'greats' ask their arranger to write their scores for them. Me, I write all alone, from the first note to the last. All.”
-- Ennio Morricone

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“I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.”
-- Ennio Morricone

Source : "Mozart of film music". Interview with Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.

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“Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens in the movie industry.”
-- Ennio Morricone

Source : "Mozart of film music" by Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.

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“I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I used animal sounds - as you say, the coyote sound - so the sound of the animal became the main theme of the movie.”
-- Ennio Morricone

Source : "Mozart of film music" by Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.

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“You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation.”
-- Ennio Morricone

Source : "Mozart of film music" by Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.

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“Music is an experience, not a science.”
-- Ennio Morricone

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“We live in a modern world, and in contemporary music the central fact is contamination. Not the contamination of disease but the contamination of musical styles. If you find this in me, that is good.”
-- Ennio Morricone

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“I think backwards. "This was beautiful." Instead of forward.”

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”

“Honestly, after about three years on a show, you're like, 'Thank you very much for giving me a step up. Now can I go do movies?'”

“People who give will never be poor.”

Source : Anne Frank (2012). “Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex”, p.69, Halban Publishers

“By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.”

“I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.”

“Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don't think of them as disabled. You amputate part of a nose, that's 'enhancement'. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that's 'augmentation'. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it's 'disability'?”

“Best performance of the year: Aston Villa v. Milan, September 1994”

Source : Alec Guinness (2001). “A Commonplace Book”

“We always looked forward to playing Aston Villa to hear him mangle Ugo Ehiogu's name. "Make sure you pick up Ehugu, Ehogy, whatever his name is."”

“WE HAD AN AMAZING STAY AT SURF AND SUNSET VILLA. THE WHOLE FAMILY REALLY ENJOYED THE HOLIDAY AND THE SURF WAS GREAT!”