Back Quote by Ry Cooder

It's a funny thing with the inspiration thing. There's always loads of music around that I absolutely love and films going back to when…

— Steven Price

Before me, music soundtracks were sort of afterthoughts.

— Melvin Van Peebles

My parents had a lot of movie soundtracks that they brought back from the States. So very early on I heard film music at…

— Alexandre Desplat

I'm an early 1990's baby, so I had the pleasure of going through a lot of eras in music.

— DaBaby

There was a time - and I used to get made fun of a lot - that all I collected was soundtracks.

— Jason Marsden

I did 'The Sound of Music.' That was my first musical.

— Lindsay Mendez

Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks.

— Martin Gore

We played more rock music when we were writing the script. 'Renegade'. All of the Styx songs. All of the old '70's and '80's…

— Todd Farmer

With every film, for which I'm the only composer, I try to switch genres. I find that really exciting.

— Amaal Mallik

After 1999, I thought that I needed a break. As a senior composer, I didn't like the trend of three music directors working on…

— Bappi Lahiri

That era in the late '80s through the '90s was really when the music was so new, fresh, energetic, but still creative. It hadn't…

— Terry Gross

I can remember soundtracks that you just can't separate from the film - It's just so intertwined, so important. Like the Hitchcock ones where…

— Jonny Greenwood