Morricone Quotes

#1. People who don't respect money don't have any.

J. Paul Getty

#2. All those stories I've told you are as delicate as butterflies.

Arnold Arre

#3. Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the movie industry.

Ennio Morricone

#4. There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.

Ennio Morricone

#5. We live in a modern world, and in contemporary music the central fact is contamination. Not the contamination of disease but the contamination of musical styles. If you find this in me, that is good.

Ennio Morricone

#6. Fate determines a man's beginning. The man, by choice, determines his end.

Ogwo David Emenike

#7. When I think of Morricone, more than his using a specific instrument or a specific sound, it's his way of approaching music that sticks out.

Marco Beltrami

#8. I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I used animal sounds - as you say, the coyote sound - so the sound of the animal became the main theme of the movie.

Ennio Morricone

#9. Music is an experience, not a science.

Ennio Morricone

#10. I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.

Ennio Morricone

#11. I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.

Ennio Morricone

#12. Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility BY JAMES P. CARSE

Daniel H. Pink

#13. I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working.

Daniel Handler

#14. You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation.

Ennio Morricone

#15. It had a very good arrangement by Herbie Hancock, but it used existing pieces.

Ennio Morricone

#16. The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

John C. Calhoun

#17. For a professional writer in the Soviet Union, it works this way. First, you have to have something to say - that's the main thing. Second, it's a matter of who publishes you. If your book has real stuff in it, readers will ferret it out, even in a Siberian journal.

Anatoly Rybakov

#18. Whenever I drive under a yellow light, I always kiss my finger and tap it on the roof of the car.

Jared Padalecki

#19. Every film that I have done has been woman-centric, because I am in it.

Kajol