Age Quote by Aaron Zigman

Writing for a film means the music has to serve the film, the narrative.

— Anoushka Shankar

It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing about somebody else's experience.

— Alessandro Nivola

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…

— Henry Jackman

Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.

— William P. Perry

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

— Jessica Hagedorn

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

— Vanessa Brown

Music is definitely cheaper and more immediate. But part of the draw of film to me is the multidisciplinary aspect. I always enjoyed film…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

When you're writing for theater or TV, it's open-ended in scope. You can write 10 separate pieces that are really effective but have no…

— John Parish

I prefer writing for myself to perform, I guess. But if I had to choose, I'd rather perform in someone's movie than write a…

— Kristen Schaal

Sometimes you write music to a script or while a film is being edited. Sometimes I write without seeing any images, but that's rare.…

— Johann Johannsson

Write what you want to write, write what people want to hear, and write about what they're going through, because if you could connect…

— Luke Combs

I'm used to music as a tool, taking the various elements and then making something completely new out of them. And writing film music…

— Ry Cooder