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Composer Quotes by Danny Elfman
- I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a…
- So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball…
- It all depends on the directors. Working closely with a director is the main job of a film composer. Interpreting what he perceives as a…
- 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 doing…
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- To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be,… — Dirk Benedict
- Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. — Hector Berlioz
- I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer. — Leonard Bernstein
- Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the… — Johannes Brahms
- That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want… — David Amram
- Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in… — Jean Genet
- The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach… — Ernest Newman
- The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. — Ernest Newman