Film music Quotes · Page 2

I've always been in love with film and music.

— JaVale McGee

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

— Randy Newman

Film music, over the years, has taken from everybody.

— Henry Mancini

As an artist, I am for non-film music as well. I want that to shine as much as Bollywood.

— Armaan Malik

My parents had a lot of movie soundtracks that they brought back from the States. So very early on I heard film…

— Alexandre Desplat

It was always my dream to do non-film music, where I'm the voice and face of my composition.

— Amaal Mallik

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via…

— Ingmar Bergman

I usually like to introduce the film and the music with the opening titles. It's a great help for a composer to…

— Alexandre Desplat

Without the knowledge of music, it would be very hard to write film music. There are so many films, and each one…

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

What makes film music different is that we are always given a situation and we make the song accordingly.

— Ankit Tiwari

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

— Nico Muhly

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

— Volker Bertelmann

When I make film music, I'm a filmmaker first and foremost. It's about serving the needs of the film. You're telling a…

— Johann Johannsson

It is really amazing to be able to do cinematic, big feature style film music on a weekly basis and do it…

— Christopher Lennertz

Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a…

— Malcolm Arnold

Northeastern folk music influenced me from a very young age. Sachin Dev Burman is one of the inspirational musicians in Indian film…

— Adnan Sami

One of the earliest memories I have of feeling the power of film music was watching Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.…

— Geoff Zanelli

When I visited Africa to make my film 'Music by Prudence,' I was struck by how intensely religious and socially conservative Africans…

— Roger Ross Williams

I actually write film music because I'm classically trained on the piano so as well as songwriting I also write actual film…

— Vanessa Brown

You can treat musicians like actors - you give them a roadmap but don't tell them what to do, and let their…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

Film music is always given a step-motherly treatment though it is the most popular form of music.

— Rajiv Menon

Eventually, I began singing in various shows. It was then that I started appreciating the breadth and depth of Hindi film music.

— Javed Ali

The consumption of information, films, music has been changing in recent decades. It's hard to know what will become the film that…

— Lucrecia Martel

When you're working on film music, you're only working on 20, 30-minute sections at a time.

— Howard Shore

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

— Howard Shore

Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are…

— Alex North

I think it's great to see that there is such a connection to film music and the way people react or connect…

— Ramin Djawadi

My audiences are generally mixed. Some people like techno, others are into the pop music, and others enjoy my film music.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

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

— Bryan Adams

If you're reading a comic strip, you can read it at any speed you want. But with film and music, the audience…

— John Kricfalusi

Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.…

— Jim Jarmusch

I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.

— Laura Mvula

There was a time when people were afraid that film music would totally displace classical music.

— Y. G. Mahendran

The original 'Tum Bin' was one of my favourite films whether you talk about the film or the music.

— Tulsi Kumar

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…

— Henry Jackman

When I was young, I wanted, most of all, to be a writer of films and film music. But Middlesbrough in 1968…

— Chris Rea

Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may…

— Robbie Robertson

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.

— Jim Jarmusch

My brother grew up listening to rock n' roll and then he started to discover film music. I was the exact opposite.…

— Bear McCreary

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

— Kailash Kher