Maurice Jarre Quotes

#1. If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.

Charles Mackay

#2. My parents did not have any interest in music.

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#3. In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented.

Robert Genn

#4. It is observable that God has often called men to places of dignity and honor when they have been busy in the honest employment of their vocation.

Benjamin Franklin

#5. In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely.

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#6. But, yes, now I wouldn't do some of those soundtracks the way I did them.

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#7. With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.

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#8. Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.

Wilhelm Reich

#9. Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema.

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#10. I was lucky Mozart was not eligible this year.

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#11. I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

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#12. Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.

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#13. The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.

Bertrand Russell

#14. When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.

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#15. Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece.

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#16. For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird.

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#17. The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them.

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#18. A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.

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