Quotes About James Horner

#1. James Horner, James Newton Howard, John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Michael Giacchino, or Ramin Djawadi would all be a dream come true for a 'Throne of Glass' soundtrack.

Sarah J. Maas

#2. I don't use a computer in writing at all. I'm sort of old-fashioned about it.

James Horner

#3. I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will kill their campaign.

Jack Abramoff

#4. You have to make an audience experience with the ears as well as their eyes.

James Horner

#5. What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak ... it was born in the moments when we accumulated silent things within us.

Gaston Bachelard

#6. Go home, riley. rest and recover from your wounds. i'll see you in the morning" quinn said
no, you won't ####### see me in the morning. or any other morning.
riley"
#### off

Keri Arthur

#7. I call upon you to draw from the depths of your being - to prove that we are a human race, to prove that our love outweighs our need to hate, that our compassion is more compelling than our need to blame

Elizabeth Taylor

#8. The sound world that I created for 'Avatar' had to be very different, really, than anything I ever created before. There is also three hours of music.

James Horner

#9. I'm used to working with the director and producer, and that's my relationship. It's very simple.

James Horner

#10. I'm a fanatic about Irish music. I love its moody, modal and timeless quality. I'm different from some other composers, because I don't look at this as just a job. I think of music as art.

James Horner

#11. I think very abstractly when I'm writing. Then, as the project moves on, it becomes more like sculpting.

James Horner

#12. I am a musicologist, a doctor of music. Therefore I listened to, studied and analysed a lot of music. I also enjoy metaphors, the art of quoting and of cycles.

James Horner

#13. I have learned that a man who counts himself a shepherd is not worthy to be a member of a flock.

Andrew Vachss

#14. You can't stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.

Amy Tan

#15. I'm sure that I was influenced by Goldsmith's large orchestral scores when I started out, and that was because the people who employed me wanted that kind of sound. I wasn't in a position to say, 'Go to Hell!'

James Horner

#16. I think people hire me for the slightly weird angle that I bring. Part of the trick is keeping it sort of simple; you have to give the impression of not that much music playing when there's really a lot.

James Horner

#17. I tend to write it and then let go emotionally.

James Horner

#18. The music's job is to get the audience so involved that they forget how the movie turns out.

James Horner

#19. Close your eyes. Grab a hand. And jump! Your destiny is waiting for you at the bottom!

B.M. Hardin

#20. To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use a computer when I write, and I don't use a piano. I'm at a desk writing, and it's very broad strokes and notes as colors on a palette.

James Horner

#21. Someone once said that life is what happens while we are making other plans. I now know what that means.

Charlie Bell

#22. Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack Horner with our earth, till there is never a plum left in it.

James Russell Lowell

#23. My mother read me biblical stories at night.

Malcolm Gladwell

#24. My tastes went all over the place, from Strauss to Mahler. I was never a big Wagner or Tchaikovsky fan. Benjamin Britten, Tallis, all the early English Medieval music, Prokofiev, some Russian composers, mostly the people that were the colorists, the French.

James Horner