Soundtracks Quotes

• I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears.

  Dave Attell

  Ears, Music Is, Feels

  "Random Rules: Dave Attell". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. January 2, 2008.

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• A good score should have a point of view all of its own. It should transcend all that has gone before, stand on its own two feet and still serve the movie. A great soundtrack is all about communicating with the audience, but we all try to bring something extra to the movie that is not entirely evident on screen.

  Hans Zimmer

  Views, Should Have, Two

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• Music is the soundtrack to life. It plays the melody of our being.

  Michael Jackson

  Play, Music Is, Melody

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• Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Needs, Sometimes

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “Diggers: The Second Book of the Nomes”, p.183, Random House

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• Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive.

  Rob Sheffield

  Song, Memories, Alive

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• One of the things I loved about the musical was that you listened to the soundtrack and it told you the story.

  Tim Burton

  Musical, Stories

  Interview with Orlando Parfitt, www.ign.com. January 23, 2008.

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• Maybe what life needs is a good soundtrack, especially during the long stretches when nothing interesting is being said. A soundtrack might dignify things a bit, ennobling us with the proper drama and tension and pathos.

  Jonathan Hull

  Drama, Long, Interesting

  Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books

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• I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, Creating, Ideas

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Home, Tape

  "Kill Bill: Volume 1". Interview with Michaela Latham, www.bbc.co.uk. October 28, 2014.

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• Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a little out of the range of hearing.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Littles, Hearing, Range

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Well lately I have listening to a lot of movie soundtracks.

  Mike Lowry

  Listening, Wells

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• In horror movies today its lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.

  Alejandro Amenabar

  Cutting, Opposites, Silence

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• Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us.

  Louise Brown

  Hate, Play, Musical

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• I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection.

  Quentin Tarantino

  House, Albums, Records

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• No one wants to get their ass beat to a soundtrack.

  Dave Chappelle

  Funny, Humor, Want

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• I love doing film soundtracks and working with directors on how they want the scene to be portrayed on audio as opposed to visual. I like the collaborative effort of working with people.

  Al Jourgensen

  People, Effort, Directors

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• I like film soundtracks. I like the soundtracks better than the movies.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Film

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I remember watching Romeo + Juliet when I was 14 and listening to the soundtrack. When I hear that soundtrack now, all those emotions come back. It's really beautiful when you're at a certain point in your life where most of the adventure lies ahead of you. And it's a sad thing when you feel like you've lost that. But you can get it back.

  Lykke Li

  Beautiful, Lying, Adventure

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the most important part of a song.

  Nate Ruess

  Song, Thinking, Important

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• Music is the soundtrack of our lives, it's essential for our lives.

  Tavis Smiley

  Essentials, Music Is, Our Lives

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I lost the plot for a while then. And I lost the subplot, the script, the soundtrack, the intermission, my popcorn, the credits, and the exit sign.

  Nick Hornby

  Plot, Popcorn, Credit

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.34, Penguin

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• I wanted to make the soundtrack of people's lives.

  Big Sean

  People, Wanted

  "Kanye West Almost Walked Away From Latest Protege Big Sean" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. June 17, 2009.

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• I think it started with both the shows and the box set from finishing White Material. I think we were also pretty desperate to get it released. We felt pretty proud of it, and it just escalated from there. We were thinking about playing some live shows, doing the soundtracks live. It was just trying to shine a little light on this 15 years of work we've done.

  Stuart A. Staples

  Thinking, Light, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Music is the soundtrack of your life.

  Dick Clark

  Rock N Roll, Music Is

  "Dick Clark, famed New Year's host and 'America's oldest teenager', dies at 82" by Brian Braiker, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2012.

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• I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater.

  Joseph Gatt

  Different, Genres Of Music, Theater

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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