Film Music Quotes

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Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.

Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be.

Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent

I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I wonder whether it's the music that has that effect on you in this film.

Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.

Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.

Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.

There's just so little mystery left in music or film. It was all that was magical to me as a child.

I don't believe in putting in music as a band aid to get you over some rough parts or bad film making. If it's there it's got to add to it or take it to another level.

I just called to say, 'I love you.

Film music really is about point of view and you can shift it wherever you want really depending on how you look at it.

If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.

The fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can be as good as the composer is gifted.

People are always asking me to do Shakespeare - at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It's like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It's great therapy.

Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert

I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film - always grow and study.

Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.

I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

Sometimes you want to use the music in a clarity way to explain something in the film.

Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.

I'm a people person, very approachable. I go out every night, tons of functions. I love all facets of this industry... Music, film, TV, books, art. I love being around creative people.

Gene Autry was a pioneering star in the early days of music, radio, film, television and rodeo performances. I am proud to posthumously honor such an inspiring role model.

I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.

It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.

Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.

Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.

I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.

I do want to direct, eventually. I don't know if it will be a short film or a music video or a feature, but I know that I want to at least try it and see.

I can't really say that film music inspired me; it is more the films themselves, in connection with the music.

It's a funny thing with the inspiration thing. There's always loads of music around that I absolutely love and films going back to when I started making film music in the mid-80's.

Communists love to make films about composers, because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things.

Creating music, visual art, producing music and film are always at the forefront of my life.

You have to be able to use it [art] to effect change in the community. That's what gives the film and the music an impactful legacy.

I never thought about acting before I started modeling, but since then I've been in short films and music videos, and I got interested. It felt natural to switch over.

I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.

My good friend Josh Bibby happens to be a pro skier and has used my music in 2 international ski films.

I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes I listen to Indian music quite often and other non- film music.

I edited Big Funk, some of the footage was shot by Peter Care. We were film buffs as much as music buffs, and so there are film reference as well as sound references.

The consumption of information, films, music has been changing in recent decades. It's hard to know what will become the film that can not easily reach [audiences].