Composer Quotes - Page 17

• Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work.

  Christophe Beck

  Fun, Personality, Quality

  Source: collider.com

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• As your relationship with the music gets stronger, so does your motivation for playing it and finding different sounds. If you have the idea that you can find a colour that is better for one composer or another, even if it’s an illusion, this generates enormous pleasure.

  Maurizio Pollini

  Motivation, Ideas, Stronger

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• As a composer at a point where I can absolutely pick and choose what I want to do, I don't want to write about anybody I don't care about.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Writing, Care, Want

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• Before writing a single note of music, and even before the spotting session, I find it best to sit down with the director and just listen to him or her talk about the film - what they're trying to say, what they want the audience to understand or believe, and a thousand other similar questions. The director has most likely been living with the film for years before a composer is attached, and so the director's inclinations, desires, and understanding of the film are paramount.

  John Keltonic

  Believe, Writing, Years

  "A Conversation With Prolific Music Composer & Producer John Keltonic". Interview with Norm Goldman, www.bookpleasures.com. July 21, 2015.

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• Be persistent. Establishing yourself in this field could easily take years. Rarely will any composer get that one "big break." More often, success is built on hundreds - or thousands - of very small breaks. When I decided that I was definitely going to pursue a career as a film composer, I decided I was going to beat my head against that particular wall until something broke.

  John Keltonic

  Wall, Years, Careers

  "A Conversation With Prolific Music Composer & Producer John Keltonic". Interview with Norm Goldman, www.bookpleasures.com. July 21, 2015.

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• The main thing the composer needs to do is it needs to remember that the director is there to cheer you on. The director wants you to succeed because if you succeed, you'll be helping the film. And they are truly your conscience. And they're truly your guide.

  Hans Zimmer

  Cheer, Needs, Want

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I'm a geek and I'm a nerd, and I can listen into any piece of music. I think, I can usually tell you what orchestra it was, I can usually tell you what hall it was in. I can tell you, obviously who the conductor was, and who the composer was.

  Hans Zimmer

  Thinking, Nerd, Pieces

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I've always been fascinated by music and sounds. I was lucky to receive proper classical training as an orchestra player and I'm always learning as a composer, looking to create new flavors and colors.

  Lior Ron

  Player, Color, Training

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• I'd love to do a musical actually. My background is in music. I have a bachelors in music. I thought that I was going to be a composer, long ago when I first started. So it was amazingly fun to do those two routines in the film.

  Ivan Reitman

  Fun, Long Ago, Two

  "NO STRINGS ATTACHED Interview with Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Director Ivan Reitman and Screenwriter Liz Meriwether". Press Conference, collider.com. January 19, 2011.

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• The reality is each new day and each project is another opportunity to learn, experiment and try something I haven't done before. I've found that's what keeps me motivated and moving forward - learning new things and challenging myself on a daily basis to improve as a composer, recording engineer, percussionist, guitarist, producer...the list goes on and on!

  Jason Graves

  Moving Forward, Opportunity, Reality

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• One important thing, just being a film composer in general, is to have a great respect for the art that you're working on - a great respect for the film and a great respect for the filmmakers.

  Joseph Trapanese

  Art, Important, Just Being

  Source: collider.com

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• People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not lit by a cinematographer or scored by a composer. The properties of real life and the properties of drama have almost nothing to do with each other. The difference between writing about reporters and being a reporter is the same as the difference between drawing a building and building a building.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Life, Real, Drama

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• I don't like to do things the same way every time. You always want to be evolving as a composer, and if your creative process is exactly the same each time, then how do you expect today's work to be any different from yesterday's?

  Christopher Tin

  Yesterday, Creative, Different

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• When you build a building, you finish a building. You don't finish a garden; you start it, and then it carries on with its life. So my analogy was really to say that we composers or some of us should think of ourselves as people who start processes rather than finish them. And there might be surprises.

  Brian Eno

  Garden, Thinking, People

  "The 77 Million Faces of Brian Eno". Interview with Andrew Marantz, www.motherjones.com. November 12, 2012.

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• Every time I see a film or TV show, I think about how that composer made those choices and how that director envisioned music and how that could work onstage or in a film and how you could support that even further by putting lyrics to it.

  Robert Lopez

  Thinking, Tv Shows, Choices

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• Im still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.

  Dhani Harrison

  Used, Stills

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• Bob Moses, composer, drummer, poet, artist, conceptualizer, inspirer of people, has created a musical environment that is balanced between discipline and freedom, compositional design and spontaneous inspiration. A party with a purpose. This album is original, soulful, funny and very special. I hope a lot of people get as much enjoyment from it as I have.

  Gil Evans

  Inspiration, Party, Artist

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• I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so its difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels.

  Nigel Kennedy

  Thinking, People, Musician

  "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. February 20, 2010.

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• Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a very diverse group and the result is always more interesting than something I could have done by myself.

  Marco Tempest

  Interesting, Done, Groups

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• For me, listening to Beethoven and Tchaikovsky in particular, there's an emotional aspect - very different kinds of emotional aspects from those two composers, nonetheless, very strong emotional aspects from both of those composers.

  Crispin Glover

  Strong, Emotional, Tchaikovsky

  Interview with David Wolinsky, film.avclub.com. November 21, 2007.

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• It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.

  Bela Bartok

  Believe, May, Wells

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• The most important person is the audience and the composer. The rest of us - and even the composer is a servant to the audience. And of course, the audience is a servant to the higher art.

  Dolora Zajick

  Art, Important, Servant

  "For Opera Powerhouse Dolora Zajick, 'Singing Is Connected To The Body'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 25, 2015.

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• For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to make them speak, weep, sing and sigh, to recreate them in accordance with his own consciousness. In this way he, like the composer, is a creator, for he must have within himself those passions that he wishes to bring so intensely to life.

  Franz Liszt

  Moving, Passion, Musical

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• I've been a full-time composer for many years, and I'm still learning all the time. There is always more than one musical "solution" to each movie scene, but my goal is to compose music that works perfectly for the director, and me!

  John Keltonic

  Years, Goal, Musical

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• I grew up on Bach and Beethoven and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff. That's the only reason I'm thinking of going on.

  A. R. Rahman

  Thinking, Names, Listening

  Source: collider.com

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