I'd say for a film composer, 'Star Wars' is kind of like…

If you're a film composer, you have the music tell the story of the character.

— Ludwig Goransson

As a film composer, you have to be a good collaborator.

— Ramin Djawadi

Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.

— Nellie Melba

I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working.

— Daniel Handler

I wanted to be a film composer because I heard scores that could stand alone, from 'Vertigo' to 'Star Wars' to 'La Dolce Vita,'…

— Alexandre Desplat

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

— Joseph Trapanese

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated…

— Hanns Eisler

I'm a film composer, but I'm a hip-hop guy.

— Adrian Younge

I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would never be…

— Danny Elfman

I would love to do more superhero work; as a young film composer, that is one of the things you dream of.

— Ludwig Goransson

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

— John Kricfalusi

Every now and then, as a composer and producer, it's important to write music for yourself.

— Ludwig Goransson

My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First…

— Elliott Carter

To compose is to remember music that has never been written.

— Robert Schumann

Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

— Jack Kirby