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I'd rather lose the small part of the audience that is going to be insulted because a documentary shouldn't have music than the big…

— Daniel Stamm

Some people feel like you need to have a very specialized understanding of music to have the authority to talk about it. They are…

— Henry Jackman

I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does…

— Bryan Adams

Documentary has been a way for me to establish myself as a filmmaker. It's my way of proving that I have a language, that…

— Mano Khalil

Making a documentary, there are thousands of choices, all the time: the angles and the pace and the choice of characters, the choice of…

— Andreas Koefoed

I mean, I think as a composer for film, I am very frequently deferential to the drama. My motto is, 'Do no harm.' My…

— Bear McCreary

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if…

— Mike Figgis

I think most albums deserve a documentary because [an album] is a visual book. You don't have to read up on it because you…

— Nas

Music documentaries are hard to tell, but I think they're an amazing vehicle to look at racism, our attitude to sex, the way we…

— Nick Broomfield

You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them,…

— Anonymous

I always thought of documentaries as films through which you find your voice as a narrator.

— Diego Luna

Forget about musical credibility. I think, unless you're Radiohead or whatever, it's pointless striving for that. What I would like is some respect.

— Ronan Keating