Jerry Goldsmith Quotes

#1. What I love more than anything is Jerry Goldsmith's 80's music and Bernard Herrmann's genre music from the 50's and 60's.

Bear McCreary

#2. Jerry Goldsmith is an artist who meets all the demands upon the composer in films. He communicates, integrates, subordinates, supports, and designs with discipline.

Jerry Goldsmith

#3. Jerry Goldsmith is the #1 composer working now. He's open to new ideas and always inventing.

Elmer Bernstein

#4. You're happy when you help others become happy.

Dalai Lama

#5. Joy is not just about being happy. Joy is a rigorous spiritual practice of saying yes to life on life's terms

Mark Matousek

#6. I like the variety. But basically my choice of films is a small intimate film. Quiet film, no action, just people in relationships. That's what I like the most.

Jerry Goldsmith

#7. If you don't have something that glues the audience to the screen, you're in trouble.

Neill Blomkamp

#8. You are meant to heal. There is beauty and wild magic in the night. Enough to make you ache with joy and grow strong. There is no lesson in that. There is just reward, waiting for you, that asks nothing and demands no payment. Look! the Dragon orders. Look and tell me what more is needed.

Alexia Casale

#9. Curcumin is found in the yellow spice called turmeric and is used in curries and mustards.

Rick Warren

#10. Sounds mean nothing without music.

Jerry Goldsmith

#11. I've been using the Mac solely for years, and got very comfortable with it.

Jerry Goldsmith

#12. If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.

Jerry Goldsmith

#13. For She's a Squishy Marshmallow

David Mitchell

#14. The fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can be as good as the composer is gifted.

Jerry Goldsmith

#15. I think that the great part of creativity is overcoming fear. Fear is a given. When you sit down and have to begin something, don't be afraid to be filled with fear, because it goes with the turf.

Jerry Goldsmith

#16. When I was a younger man - two wives ago, 250,000 cigarettes ago, 3,000 quarts of booze ago ...

Kurt Vonnegut

#17. Our very sexual identities are artifices and illusions, the result of a lifetime of striving.

John Stoltenberg

#18. My wife has them all in a vault ... a copy of every album.

Jerry Goldsmith