Quotes About Soundtracks

#1. We want to keep extending our brand into different places, into movies and soundtracks and our music will live on through licensing and our brand lives on through merchandise and new generations will get to wear our clothing and our T-shirts and stuff that's associated with us.

Nikki Sixx

#2. I love doing film soundtracks and working with directors on how they want the scene to be portrayed on audio as opposed to visual. I like the collaborative effort of working with people.

Al Jourgensen

#3. There was a time - and I used to get made fun of a lot - that all I collected was soundtracks.

Jason Marsden

#4. One of the most interesting things, at least for me, are the soundtracks for 'The Social Network' and 'Drive.' Basically, it's what I did in 'American Gigolo.' I could have done the music for those movies blindfolded. And one of them won an Oscar, and the other is this massive soundtrack.

Giorgio Moroder

#5. I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater.

Joseph Gatt

#6. I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.

Quentin Tarantino

#7. James Franco, acting, teaching, directing, writing, producing, photography, soundtracks, editing - is there anything you can do?

Natasha Leggero

#8. I really love movie soundtracks and stuff like that. That's really a huge part of any movie. I actually think about ... that this would be cool in a movie or something, like when I'm writing a song, or something you know?

Jay Gordon

#9. I do enjoy my solo time ... I want to stay home and do soundtracks and watch TV in my underwear with a keyboard on my lap and just be a couch potato.

Ariel Pink

#10. Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us.

Louise Brown

#11. I do select a soundtrack for each of my subjects and again my assistants you know they make fun of me because that is more important to me than the lighting, which I just do in a minute right before, but I spend a long time on the soundtracks.

Carol Friedman

#12. I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom to Queen soundtracks.

Carmen Ejogo

#13. I keep my iPod on shuffle most of the time, but I'm most into Cirque du Soleil soundtracks.

Steve-O

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

Maurice Jarre

#15. I'd love to do film and soundtracks, and you couldn't do much better than James Bond.

Charlie Fink

#16. My favorite films, I would put my answering machine up to the television set and hit record. I'd tape my favorite movies and then I could go back and listen to them again. I only had the soundtrack, I didn't have the visuals. But I think it made me really pay attention to the soundtracks.

Mark Mothersbaugh

#17. Everyone wants to get into soundtracks. Everyone wants to do songs here and there. But, I think they want it for different reasons. I think I'm just tumbling through my life, enjoying playing with everybody.

Liz Phair

#18. Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks.

Martin Gore

#19. Leave a movie audience inspired, and they will want to ingrain that movie into their lives with the toys, branded food products, soundtracks, and clothing they buy.

Shawn Amos

#20. Being on United Artists was almost as bad as not being on any label at all. They were the crappiest in the business. All they did was movie soundtracks. Now, they were making an effort to become much hipper - signing people like Bobby Womack and what have you.

Don McLean

#21. I think I've done more recording in the past 10 years than most people, but it's all been directed toward film composing and soundtracks. Just the same, it's been great.

Stanley Clarke

#22. I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders.

Chrissie Hynde

#23. I like film soundtracks. I like the soundtracks better than the movies.

Madonna Ciccone

#24. I'd love to sign a contract for the soundtracks to every Wes Anderson movie, you know what I'm saying? Things like that, I have no spots on my conscience about.

Doseone

#25. I have the soundtrack for 'A Clockwork Orange,' which is kind of cool. I guess I don't really end up buying a lot of modern soundtracks. Another soundtrack I love is from a French movie called 'Betty Blue.' it has some really melancholy piano work.

James Mercer

#26. Wes Craven's 'Shocker' is one of my favorite soundtracks. I don't know where that movie stands in the critical eye of cinema, but it was a really fun movie because of all the bands that were part of it.

Adam Green

#27. I like soundtracks and I like film.

Adam Jones

#28. Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.

Terry Pratchett

#29. I do feel like my music, in some weird way, is probably better suited for cinema than for anything else - I can't really explain, other than I think that music has been mostly inspired often by soundtracks.

Zach Condon

#30. I think if you write music for soundtracks then sometimes you do something that you could never do if the film did not exist.

Claudio Simonetti

#31. John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

Carter Burwell

#32. I've featured in some soundtracks in the past, and I would love to do more. I love great soundtracks to movies. Quentin Tarantino always picks amazing soundtracks, so I would like to do something for him or write a song for him.

Eliza Doolittle

#33. The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.

Danger Mouse

#34. I have soundtracks for a lot of stuff.

Dave Attell

#35. I can remember soundtracks that you just can't separate from the film - It's just so intertwined, so important. Like the Hitchcock ones where they kind of inform each other and become this larger thing as a result.

Jonny Greenwood

#36. This sounds geeky, but when I run, I like to listen to musicals like 'Les Miserables.' The soundtracks are 75 minutes or longer, and I keep going until the story ends, so it feels like a good workout.

Lindy Booth

#37. A few performances have been left out of the various Woodstock soundtracks and film edits over the years, most notably The Grateful Dead.

Shawn Amos

#38. I've always wanted to work with Barbra Streisand because she's worked with some of the best background singers in the world who are friends of mine, worked with them in concert or on movie soundtracks, and I always say 'Now, where was I? Where was I when she was hiring people to work with her?'

Darlene Love

#39. I wanted to make an unashamed pop record. I became obsessed with Disney soundtracks from the '50s, so I decided to make my own.

Mika.

#40. I am definitely interested in soundtracks that one might associate with fantasy or sci-fi - they tend to be rich with musical ideas.

John Maus

#41. Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy.

Margaret Heffernan

#42. Well lately I have listening to a lot of movie soundtracks.

Mike Lowry

#43. I always wanted to be a film composer. So very early on I started collecting soundtracks and paying attention to how movie music works. Actually I'd like to have the opportunity to conduct for the rest of my life.

Alexandre Desplat

#44. All the major social movements of the 20th century had great soundtracks - We need that. The left needs better propaganda, because we don't have the Koch brothers. It takes a different kind of capital to fight that stuff.

DJ Spooky

#45. Music is a soundtrack for your life. You hear some tune and you just get swept right back to that point in your life.

Kevin Bacon

#46. One of the things I loved about the musical was that you listened to the soundtrack and it told you the story.

Tim Burton

#47. The spirit of America is all about defiance, and the best music like mine is the freedom soundtrack.

Ted Nugent

#48. The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat.

Russell Simmons

#49. If Manliness had a soundtrack, the score would be metal.

Maddox

#50. Music is the soundtrack to my life.

James Hetfield

#51. I have music in my head constantly. I have to have a soundtrack in my head.

Bob Mould

#52. Music is the soundtrack to life. It plays the melody of our being.

Michael Jackson

#53. Music is one of those things that becomes a soundtrack to our lives.

Nathan East

#54. Music is the beat of a drum that keeps time with our emotions.

Shannon L. Alder

#55. 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

#56. I never use soundtrack; it is always part of the story.

Michael Haneke

#57. I wish everyone could hear the soundtrack for my life that I hear in my head.

Nicole Richie