Cliff Martinez

Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.

— Cliff Martinez

I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time.

— Cliff Martinez

It's very important that you never depend on money to fulfill your creative vision. If you do that, you're doomed to fail.

— Cliff Martinez

I'm not in a position in my career where I turn things down. I'm very easy. So the projects often dictate the…

— Cliff Martinez

I think the music business is becoming more difficult. It's really taken a big hit with piracy, so it's a lot more…

— Cliff Martinez

I think there is quite a continuity over my 25 years of doing music, and I'm always trying to break away from it.

— Cliff Martinez

The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn. The…

— Cliff Martinez

The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn.

— Cliff Martinez

Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services.

— Cliff Martinez

I work at home but average 15,000 to 18,000 miles per year on my Honda.

— Cliff Martinez

I think music will be created algorhythmically, all the things that we do will be boiled down to a little computer program.

— Cliff Martinez

I don't want to be typecast as the 'ambient guy' or someone who only does electronic scores. I think most of the…

— Cliff Martinez

I'm kind of an antisocial person. I realised when I was playing in bands that I wasn't that comfortable being on-stage, and…

— Cliff Martinez

I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless.

— Cliff Martinez