Film Scores Quotes:

Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if youve got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.

- Anne Dudley

topic: Way, Lasts, Helping, Film Scores

I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?

- Brian Wilson

topic: Song, Writing, Film, Film Scores

In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.

- Stewart Copeland

topic: People, Opera, Want, Film Scores

I grew up on film scores and scores from films.

- Skitch Henderson

topic: Film, Score, Grew, Film Scores

Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved.

- Anne Dudley

topic: Art, People, Directors, Film Scores

Singer/songwriters spend two or three years making an album, and then it goes up for sale and everybody pirates it and you don't make any money. Whereas, writing a film score you still get presented with a paycheck.

- Cliff Martinez

source: "Neon Melodies: Composer Cliff Martinez Interviewed". Interview with Adam White, thequietus.com. July 1, 2016.

topic: Writing, Two, Years, Film Scores

I love film scores and opera, and I wanted to work in those forms. But theater was more accessible. And no one was doing this in the late 1970s, when I began working in the theater. So, I have written scores for thirteen plays, which are not musicals, but straight plays.

- Jeff Britting

source: Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com

topic: Play, Opera, Film, Love Films, Film Scores

Jumping twenty or so years later, Ann Ciccolella, artistic director of Austin Shakespeare, approached me with the idea of staging Anthem. She had heard my film score to Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life. And she said, I want to do Anthem as an oratorio. Well, I figured what she meant was a straight play with music.

- Jeff Britting

source: Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com

topic: Jumping, Years, Play, Staging, Film Scores

Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.

- William P. Perry

topic: Lonely, Occupation, Film, Film Scores

My tastes range all over the place, from vocal standards to Motown to 70s funk & soul to 80s pop to film scores to artists like R.E.M., Ben Folds, Prince, Annie Lennox, the Police, Elvis Costello, Cat Stevens, the Ditty Bops, local bands that friends of mine are in, and the list goes on... I have no single favorite genre or artist.

- Stephanie D'Abruzzo

topic: Cat, Artist, Soul, Film Scores, Bops

I had great inspiration from a Japanese composer named Toru Takemitsu. He wrote over 90 film scores and a lot of concert music, a lot of classical music, and he gave me a lot of inspiration, as well as composers from other countries.

- Howard Shore

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Country, Inspiration, Film, Film Scores

I was a musician who began playing with computers, to see if they could make some tasks simpler. I developed some "tricks" or strategies for working with audio files, and then discovered that the same tricks could be applied to video files, or really, any type of data. Previously I made many different kinds of music. I did some work as a composer of film scores. In that role, my task was to create audio to match and deepen the visual. In my work now, the role is often reversed: I have to create images to match and deepen the audio.

- Kurt Ralske

topic: Data, Musician, Different, Different Kinds Of Music, Film Scores

My grand plan is that I can master having a better life by making sure I have a regular flow of songs. Then I can give myself time to tour or celebrate or write a film score.

- Imogen Heap

topic: Song, Writing, Giving, Film Scores

There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want - you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good things is that someone else's work is motivating you.

- Michael Nyman

topic: Writing, Orchestra, Want, Film Scores

I've always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would write a piece of music that is almost like a film score or weird electro pieces, wherever the muse took me, and I still do that.

- Serj Tankian

topic: Writing, Goal, Different, Different Types Of Music, Film Scores

Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.

- Gary Numan

topic: Writing, Thinking, Artist, Film Scores

I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.

- Park Chan-wook

topic: Glasses, Doe, Musician, Film Composers, Film Scores