Top 100 Soundtrack Quotes
#1. The noise of horns and radios and shouted insults was part of the soundtrack of the capital (Hard-boiled P.I. Casta, on Rome, Italy)
Tobias Jones
#2. All of my most significant moments somehow involved music. It's like my life was a John Hughes film and somebody had to put together the perfect soundtrack.
Caprice Crane
#3. You can talk about Michael Jackson all you want, but John Hughes was the soundtrack to my 1980s life.
Shawn Amos
#4. I love the music, I love the times, so to me that was exciting personally just to play something that starts in 1986 with graduating high school, we've got a great soundtrack in the pilot.
Will Estes
#5. Everything is so much more intense when I'm out of my body- the movie soundtrack is louder, the television screen is brighter, Courtney Merrill's perfume could gag a pig.
Gina Rosati
#6. After working as a producer on many pop, electronica and some soundtrack, incidental music projects, I became more focused on film and TV scores.
Paul Wardingham
#7. There's the soundtrack to The French Connection II'I think It's my favorite soundtrack. It hasn't been released. I actually had to go and get the film and just make a recording of it to get the music.
Jonny Greenwood
#8. 'Kiss Me.' That's my 'Twilight' tune, a song you'd have on the 'Twilight' soundtrack.
Ed Sheeran
#9. Turn down the porn soundtrack! Trying to concentrate here!-Shane
Rachel Caine
#10. You can't show somebody what it's like to experience loss, but you can soundtrack it and help them experience their own loss. I am so lucky to have this venue to be able to say and talk about all the stuff I've been through.
Zachary Cole Smith
#12. I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood.
Erik Larson
#13. Without action to back them, your affirmations become the soundtrack of your personal imprisonment; the creed of your stagnancy.
Steve Maraboli
#14. Music's the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There's always music. If I'm not playing it, I'm listening to it. With my writing ... sometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highlights something I'm working on, sometimes it simply helps me stay in the narrative mood.
Charles De Lint
#15. I used to dance around the house and taught myself the 'Annie' soundtrack. I got into singing and fell in love with it.
Alexis Dziena
#16. 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
#17. A Broken Record can still play the best soundtrack. Broken can be beautiful when you allow God work on you.
Kemi Sogunle
#18. If the song was upbeat, we'd get out a funky Harry Connick, Jr. album, some Louis Prima big band, or a Bob Wills swing record for inspiration and swing for the fence, hoping to get that 'soundtrack to your life' vibe. And if it was a slow song, we'd go the other way and really make it worshipful.
Bart Millard
#19. I think I'm going to put together a compilation under Disney's name of my songs that I've done for them - because I've done six or seven by now! The latest was for the Princess Diaries 2 soundtrack. So that's the next thing that's coming out.
Christy Romano
#20. I don't think 'Sugar Man' is a music doc any more than 'The Social Network' is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever.
Malik Bendjelloul
#21. My first super-worn-out tapes were Michael Jackson's 'Bad' and the soundtrack to 'Dirty Dancing.' The soundtrack to 'Dirty Dancing' is actually really phenomenal.
Autre Ne Veut
#22. I've taken salsa classes. I love dancing and I love to karaoke. So I bought a microphone with some tapes and my son and I karaoke. I know the entire 'Dora the Explorer' soundtrack.
Sherri Shepherd
#23. I remember lying on the floor of the living room with headphones on when I was four or five years old, listening to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.
Kevin Richardson
#24. Speaking of music, we will arrive with our own. We plan on delivering our baby to the soundtrack of Pink Floyd's The Wall while simultaneously watching The Wizard of Oz. If this kid works with us, we guarantee your minds will be blown!
Amy Poehler
#25. I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
Brian Eno
#26. I want to do a collaboration or some kind of side thing or some soundtrack work. Because I've been doing this for years and years. I'd like to just step out and try something different.
Jon Crosby
#27. Usually, in romantic comedies, you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know, just two attractive people and a good soundtrack.
Timothy Olyphant
#28. Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.
Colin Greenwood
#29. I think the most-played record in our house was the 'Big Chill' Soundtrack - so Smokey Robinson, Aretha Franklin, the Temptations, Otis Redding. I think that's where I got my love for a good hook, a good soul hook - really smooth and warm and from the heart.
Chet Faker
#30. They're the only ones brave enough to give me these opportunities [on being offered a soundtrack!]
Phil Collins
#31. 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
#32. But I would lie on the floor and analyze everything. I'd listen to all the strings and the background vocals on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and try to pick out the different instruments.
Kevin Richardson
#33. And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will feel like the eighties, all innocent and airbrushed, with bright colors and shoulder pads and Pat Benetar or the Cure on the soundtrack.
Jonathan Tropper
#34. World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?
L.A. Reid
#35. 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
#36. I still love it. I love lots of other music, too, and always have, but punk's the soundtrack of my youth. I think you never escape the music you're listening to and seeing when you're seventeen, eighteen, nineteen years old.
Elizabeth Hand
#37. I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
Quentin Tarantino
#38. I wanted to make the soundtrack of people's lives.
Big Sean
#39. One of the things I loved about the musical was that you listened to the soundtrack and it told you the story.
Tim Burton
#40. I may have the 'Twilight: Breaking Dawn' soundtrack, which I've been told is embarrassing, but come on, there are some good songs on there.
Floriana Lima
#41. It's typical for video customers to often use licensed music - whether a soundtrack, background music, or sound effects - to complement their video projects.
Jon Oringer
#42. I want to remind people that there is no soundtrack in 'Southland;' there is no scored music or soundtrack telling you what you're supposed to feel.
Michael Cudlitz
#43. Elsa is the sort of child who learned early in life that it's easier to make your way if you get to choose your own soundtrack.
Fredrik Backman
#44. Licensing can be great. You get money for work that's already done. It's not a horrible thing to me, there's just some things I don't want to soundtrack.
Hutch Harris
#45. I don't know - music in film, for me, is not another part of a soundtrack; it is something that also helps to approach a character, to foresee the type of image - you see what I mean - it's like a part of the process.
Claire Denis
#46. What I liked about doing a soundtrack is that it's almost the opposite of any kind of normal recording that a band does, because it's very much a restricted, narrow ... And I kind of like that, I find it exciting to work within these things.
Tim Gane
#47. 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
#48. In our country there's never been a successful progressive struggle that did not have a soundtrack, whether it was the civil rights movement, workers' rights movement, women's rights movement. There's got to be songs at the barricades, and those are the kinds of songs that I try to write.
Tom Morello
#49. Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have.
Alex Gaskarth
#50. I never thought people would buy the soundtrack [to Twilight]. So, it's a little more nerve-wracking now. I don't know.
Robert Pattinson
#51. The spirit of America is all about defiance, and the best music like mine is the freedom soundtrack.
Ted Nugent
#52. The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat.
Russell Simmons
#53. If Manliness had a soundtrack, the score would be metal.
Maddox
#55. And um, when I came back to England I put a very complex soundtrack on it, featuring everyone from Jimi Hendrix, right through to Neil Diamond, you know, everybody that was kind of popular who was kind of popular at that time.
Gerald Scarfe
#56. Music scores your life. You interact with it. You listen to it in the car. It becomes the soundtrack to that one summer with that one girl.
Chris Milk
#57. I'd love to do a whole soundtrack to a movie.
Rita Ora
#58. A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.
Paula Patton
#59. 'The Secret Garden' was the first musical that I fell in love with when I was a kid. My mom took me to see it, and it was the first one that I owned the soundtrack to and listened to over and over again.
Allison Tolman
#60. 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
#61. We were contracted to make a soundtrack album but there really wasn't enough new material in the movie to make a new record that I thought was interesting.
Roger Waters
#62. We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the soundtrack of our own impending death.
Courtney Summers
#63. But his singing was unconscious and irrepressible - an expression of his native exuberance, the dreamy, buoyant soundtrack running through his head.
Jennifer Haigh
#64. My brother started in the music business, and I was an actor - we were both in the entertainment industry, but doing separate things. Then he went over to New Line and started their soundtrack department, that's how he got his foot in the door.
Noah Emmerich
#65. Wouldn't it help you to realize that you really do live in an epic if your life had a soundtrack?
John Eldredge
#66. the ghetto should never come with a photo. The Third World slum is a nightmare that defies beliefs or facts, even the ones staring right at you. A vision of hell that twists and turns on itself and grooves to its own soundtrack.
Marlon James
#67. If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the most important part of a song.
Nate Ruess
#68. Usually, when I do a soundtrack, the music from the movie doesn't have anything to do with me personally. It's music to enhance to the film. My own stuff is more introspective and about what's on going in my head.
Stanley Clarke
#69. I would love someone to follow me around with a boom box so I could have a soundtrack to record my daily moments. That would be awesome! I also wouldn't complain if I had someone doing my hair - I have a hard time with my hair.
Analeigh Tipton
#70. Most of the bands that I really hold in my heart - you don't think about them as bands; they're just the soundtrack of your life.
Babatunde Adebimpe
#71. I used to listen to the soundtrack for the movie 'Tank Girl' all the time. It was really good.
Jessica Pare
#72. My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of '90s grunge - if you got it now, you would think it was the 'Singles' soundtrack.
Adam Pally
#73. My favorite film score is the one Thomas Bangalter created for 'Irreversible.' The soundtrack absolutely defines the daymare-into-nightmare feeling you get from the film.
Richard Phillips
#74. Music from my iPod was setting my life to a dramatic soundtrack that only I could hear.
Catherine Sanderson
#75. Musicians used to be way more instrumental just in providing a soundtrack to what's going on in the world. And it's also important to state what we think. There's like this fear for their career, if they have anything intelligent to say about politics. And that's really messed up.
Alicia Keys
#76. When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of a movie with a soundtrack, and try to transfer that to words.
Marisha Pessl
#77. I have music in my head constantly. I have to have a soundtrack in my head.
Bob Mould
#78. To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
Zack Snyder
#79. Then I picked my book back up again and stroked her hair and read to the soundtrack of her breaths.
Maggie Stiefvater
#80. I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps me write.
Jeff VanderMeer
#81. It's fucking lame, is what it is! The swords look like they were made out of tinfoil. And that soundtrack is epically lame. Full of synthesizers and shit. By the motherfucking Alan Parsons Project! Lame-o-rama! Beyond lame. Highlander II lame.
Ernest Cline
#82. We act out our lives to a soundtrack, thought Isabel, the music that becomes, for a spell, out favourite and is listened to again and again until it stands for the time itself. But that was about all the scripting that we achieved; the rest, for most of us, was extemporising.
Alexander McCall Smith
#83. I'm an obsessive musical theatre person, so some of the most formative albums for me were, you know, the 'Phantom Of The Opera' soundtrack or 'Into The Woods.'
Allison Williams
#84. 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.
Maurice Jarre
#85. In film, I was surprised when I first saw the movie 'Drive.' I said, 'Oh, God. It sounds great - I love it. Wow, this could be the soundtrack from 'American Gigolo' or 'Cat People.' But I'm surprised that the director would agree with a composer to write that kind of sound.
Giorgio Moroder
#87. I'm not a super prolific creator, I don't make stuff everyday, and I don't have a soundtrack constantly playing in my head. I think I had years and years of pent-up aesthetic ideas that I wanted to express.
D.A. Wallach
#88. As darkness descended, fear continued hammering on the cracks of her rational mind. Even the critters had decided to ratchet up the volume. Great. A creepy nature soundtrack for my own personal nightmare. How about some Tomb Raider music, people!
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#89. It'd be cool to chipmunk-ize 'The Virgin Suicides' soundtrack. All this ethereal French music, I think that would be unique to listen to.
Matthew Gray Gubler
#90. Talk about songs that make me cry: Track 7 on the 'Phineas and Ferb' soundtrack, 'Summer (Where Do We Begin?).' When you get to the part about sitting with your brother underneath the shade of a big tree in the backyard, ohmygod. Turn on the waterworks.
Christopher Gorham
#91. Musically, I have my project, '30058.' It's seven songs, like an EP or mixtape, but I call it a soundtrack because I feel like my life is a movie, and all the songs are moments in my life.
Shameik Moore
#92. You get to actually see the music video on the TV in the pilot and we have the soundtrack playing at this big party. I thought that was sort of a cool moment, to actually have the A-Ha video is pretty cool.
Will Estes
#93. Music is the soundtrack to life. It plays the melody of our being.
Michael Jackson
#94. Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a little out of the range of hearing.
Linda Ronstadt
#95. Even though we've devoted our lives to music, we both know that the most important things happen without a soundtrack.
Ibi Kaslik
#96. Music is the soundtrack of your life.
Dick Clark
#97. Music is as integral to me as my own DNA. My life has become a continual soundtrack, with music underscoring the most powerful and even the most banal moments of my life.
Danielle De Niese
#98. The music I was writing for 'Hamlet' needed to be very simple because there was so much going on with the dialogue in that play, so I felt like the music had to complement that - so that carried on through; I was working on the soundtrack and the album simultaneously.
Sarah Blasko
#99. I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack.
Ray Manzarek
#100. Painting doesn't have a function, not in the way that music or film does ... I mean, you can dance to music. Music can be used for a soundtrack, so it has a function in that sense, beyond itself. But painting doesn't ... But I do believe that painting has a purpose.
Peter Doig
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