I find reading books about music is sometimes tricky, because you can't hear it. But when you read a book about filmmaking,… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I mean what I love more than anything is Jerry Goldsmith's 80s music and Bernard Herrmann's genre music from the 50s and… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I'm not a good enough musician to like completely master something in a couple of days and turn it around. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
If I switch showrunners and I get to stay on the show, I approach it like it's their show, and I'm here… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
To me, the bar for television music is forever set by Shirley Walker's score for 'Batman: The Animated Series.' — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I think the thing that music can do is be unsettling. It is abnormal - music that's perceived to be different in… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
Yes, there have been musicians on both sides of my family going back several generations. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
A lot of European folk music has this interesting, intriguing quality, a whole new harmonic way of thinking. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I was growing up at a time when you just couldn't go to the movies without hearing immortal film music. And I… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
When I grew up, I loved movie music. I liked TV, too - 'The A-Team' and 'Magnum, P.I.' were awesome. But it… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I can't write a piece of music in a void, I have to know what instrument I'm writing it for. In the… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk,… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
When I was between the ages of 5 and 8 years old, I fell in love with the music of composers like… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I always like to think I build in historically accurate musical in-jokes that are so precise that like maybe there's 7 or… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
A theme can be a little melody, it can be a couple of notes. It can underscore and add subtext. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
Typically, I think television music is meant to be consistent from episode to episode, to remind you what show you're watching. I… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
While it is true that I write brand new music for every scene in every new episode of a series, I'm always… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
My brother grew up listening to rock n' roll and then he started to discover film music. I was the exact opposite.… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
What I love more than anything is Jerry Goldsmith's 80's music and Bernard Herrmann's genre music from the 50's and 60's. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I think I'm getting to break all the rules about what sci-fi music is supposed to be. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
When I got the call from Capcom to work on the music for 'Dark Void,' I jumped at the chance to do… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I enjoy the opportunity to step back and let a piece of the source music or a song come to the forefront… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I always love to use exciting colors from cultural music from around the world in my scores. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
When you die at a difficult part of a game multiple times in a row and you always respawn at the same… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I mean, I think as a composer for film, I am very frequently deferential to the drama. My motto is, 'Do no… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
Working on science fiction, horror, and adventure series is fun because the music is needed to help build the world that the… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
Going into 'Da Vinci's Demons' I didn't know anything about renaissance music and going into 'Black Sails,' I didn't know about sea… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I think the thing that music can do is be unsettling. It is abnormal - music that's perceived to be different in an unresolved… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
There are certain things I've always wanted to hear vido game scores do. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I grew up watching sci-fi and horror and dramas and playing video games. These are all things I enjoy doing. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
There was a time after doing 'Battlestar Galactica,' where I had my pick of projects that wanted taiko drums and ethnic vocals. You know,… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
The showrunner relationship in television is what the director relationship in film, there's really no more important relationship. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I mean, I think everybody has fond memories of 'Masters of the Universe.' It was just one of the things in the '80s. But… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
When you hit a string or a piece of metal or anything that vibrates, you hear the fundamental pitch that the thing is vibrating… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
Galadriel is driven by a sense of justice, if not a sense of revenge. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
The great thing about scoring sci-fi shows is that you basically get to make up the rules, because you're creating a self-contained universe; when… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
It's hard to take a series of intervals that we all recognize, and arrange them in a way that is not so simplistic, to… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I approach everything from the same perspective which is character and story, which then influence the musical style. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
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