Happens Quote by Ennio Morricone

The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story…

— Steven Price

Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music…

— Lata Mangeshkar

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

— Sun Ra

What happens with a good score is, somehow the composer manages to cast himself or herself in the role of the protagonist. And then…

— James Newton Howard

Music critics have made it quite clear that any composer who ever contributed a four-bar jingle to a film was to be referred to…

— Andre Previn

When you are a part of an all ensemble kind of thing, with many composers in one film, you get the freedom to work…

— Amaal Mallik

With a musical, you kind of have to do a mind-meld with the book-writer, the lyricist, the composer, the director - sometimes the producer.…

— David Henry Hwang

You've all seen movies where the music isn't working with the story. And it's either because... the story isn't working itself. Or the composer…

— Michael Giacchino

Because a composer's soul goes into a film, they should do the entire film, even the background score. If not, then don't do it.

— Jeet Gannguli

Film composers are the most prolific music makers on this planet, and most of us are, like, losing our minds if we're doing five…

— Christopher Young

There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.

— Harold Prince

Our job as composers becomes easy when directors have a good knowledge of music and know exactly what they want.

— Arjun Janya