Film Music Quotes

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

Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent

Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.

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.

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

Film music really is about point of view and you can shift it wherever you want really depending on how you look at it.

I just called to say, 'I love you.

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.

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.

I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.

I can't really say that film music inspired me; it is more the films themselves, in connection with the music.

For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.

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.

I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!

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].

I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?

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.

I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes I listen to Indian music quite often and other non- film music.