Animated Quote by Christopher Meledandri

I want the music to be ambiguous. Its tone gives you a context in which to start visualizing what you're feeling with the music.

— Glenn Branca

When you listen to the music in this film [Despicable Me], it's working on the level of melody, but the other key element is…

— Christopher Meledandri

Music helps define the character and is an extension of the character somehow, so that you are able to use both the songs themselves…

— Alessandro Nivola

The melody is generally what the piece is all about.

— Aaron Copland

Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Music can help uncover that tone that's in the fabric of the movie. Sometimes it's very plain to see, sometimes it's not.

— James Newton Howard

Tone has the living soul.

— Shinichi Suzuki

Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.

— Yanni

Music is everything to me. It's the heart and soul of a movie or TV show to me because it can be such an…

— Sam Esmail

This is the beauty of popular music, that it is based on simple and memorable tunes.

— Ludovico Einaudi

Although music appeals simply to the emotions, and represents no definite images in itself, we are justified in using any language which may serve…

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

When I see a movie, the music often gets in the way for me. It's something that, say, for myself and Claire, we never,…

— Stuart A. Staples