Quotes About Film Scoring

#1. That's what I love about film scoring. Every situation is new. Every show is a new adventure.

Joseph Trapanese

#2. A lot of modern film scoring is about a lack of themes, so I try to find ways of using music that doesn't necessarily have thematic material in it to make the points when there is thematic material even stronger. It's cool to be able to combine old and new.

Joseph Trapanese

#3. There's this whole other element of film scoring, which is the social and psychological side of how you're dealing with people ... And that is not always in sync with what's right for the picture.

Marco Beltrami

#4. What I love about film scoring is that all the answers are in the story. You just need to get in tune with the story and realize it musically.

Joseph Trapanese

#5. I've explored the worship side, the pop side, and the film scoring side of me.

Michael W. Smith

#6. I've often thought that my background in rock 'n' roll has gone to waste in film work. My background was that I was a rock 'n' roll drummer and I don't think I used drums in my first ten years of film scoring.

Cliff Martinez

#7. I know what I'm asking. For you to find a needle in - God, not even a haystack. A needle in a tower of other needles."
"Plunge your hand in a tower of needles," said Magnus, "and you are likely to cut yourself badly. Are you sure this is what you want?

Cassandra Clare

#8. Almost everyone can do or be something for someone else in need.

Joy F. Evans

#9. The way that I write songs is pretty simple. I hear music first, much like you would when you're scoring a film. I usually hear a soundtrack in my head, and after I get that soundtrack, it tells me what it's about, what it feels like, what the emotion is, and the words come after.

Lauren Hart

#10. Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time, nine canvases. It's murderous ...

Claude Monet

#11. Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.

Frank Ocean

#12. I have trouble listening to people tell me about their dreams.

Jack White

#13. Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

David Byrne

#14. My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.

Amy Lee

#15. But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of my self, it requires me to do things musically that I wouldn't normally do left to my own devices.

Jim Coleman

#16. I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.

A.R. Rahman

#17. It is really amazing to be able to do cinematic, big feature style film music on a weekly basis and do it in LA, on a big scoring stage, on a studio lot, and do it with the right players and make it sound great.

Christopher Lennertz

#18. My kids are my No. 1 priority. They're the light in my everyday life. The sunshine. The miracle. Those eyes. Those smiles. At the same time, I have an extended, amazing family that is my audience. All these people have been with me for such a long time. I have these two responsibilities.

Thalia

#19. I don't know, I always get the question 'how do you feel after the game today?' and, of course, if you're winning you feel great and if you lose you don't feel good. I think that's a pretty obvious question.

Caroline Wozniacki

#20. Spend your money for education; it will pay you the best dividend. No one will be able to steal is and you will not lose it for a second.

Debasish Mridha

#21. As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.

Dwight Morrow

#22. I really wanna get my paws on scoring a film.

Tommy Lee

#23. As important as color is to a painting, or wings to a bird. Music injects vibrancy to film and makes it soar!

Gerard De Marigny

#24. Life experiences become acting experiences, which in turn become life experiences.

Liv Ullmann