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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

I was never that into the movies. Never. Even as a youngster. I became interested in movie music only because of the studio orchestras…

— John Williams

I think every classically trained film composer feels to some extent, maybe on some level, that they took the low road, that they could…

— James Newton Howard

I was growing up at a time when you just couldn't go to the movies without hearing immortal film music. And I inherited from…

— Bear McCreary

There was a time when people were afraid that film music would totally displace classical music.

— Y. G. Mahendran

I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think…

— Christopher Walken

I had been exposed to classical music my whole life; even before I was born.

— Jason Becker

I've studied film a lot, so I know much more about film than music, but I don't think I could have made films.

— Jenny Hval

I was born out of classical music.

— Mika

Yes was a band where we could explore some of those ideas, but I knew that if I wanted to get into orchestral music…

— Trevor Rabin

When I came into films, I found a vacuum in the field of lyricists, writers and composers.

— Hamsalekha

One of the earliest memories I have of feeling the power of film music was watching Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. That was…

— Geoff Zanelli