Ennio Morricone quotes
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“I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.”
-- Ennio MorriconeSource : "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 MorriconeSource : "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.”
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“I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.”
-- Ennio MorriconeSource : "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 MorriconeSource : "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 MorriconeSource : "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 MorriconeSource : "Mozart of film music" by Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.
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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.”
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“People who give will never be poor.”
Source : Anne Frank (2012). “Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex”, p.69, Halban Publishers
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“I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.”
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“Best performance of the year: Aston Villa v. Milan, September 1994”
Source : Alec Guinness (2001). “A Commonplace Book”
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