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Composing demands a degree of isolation.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Composing
Degrees
Demand
Isolation
Degree
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I work at home but average 15,000 to 18,000 miles per year on my Honda.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Home
Average
Honda
Miles
Years
Per
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I like challenges and I definitely would like to be more of a chameleon.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Challenges
Chameleon
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If I had kids, I don't think I would recommend they pursue a career in music.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Kids
Careers
Thinking
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Censorship has kind of disappeared in a way because everything is accessible online.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Censorship
Kind
Way
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I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Diversity
Film
Radio
Center
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I've never tried to work chronologically. I don't think I have the discipline to do that.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Discipline
Thinking
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I'm kind of conservative. I like to build on what I've done in the past and try something new.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Done
Past
Trying
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I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
New Songs
Wait
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Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Fashion
Pop Music
Pops
Taste
Come And Go
Tastes
Fashions
Retires
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I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Imagination
Boundaries
Limitless
No Boundaries
Guess
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I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Scripts
Waste
Writing
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Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Musical
Musician
Way
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The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
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I think there is quite a continuity over my 25 years of doing music, and I'm always trying to break away from it.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Always Trying
Thinking
Years
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It's very important that you never depend on money to fulfill your creative vision. If you do that, you're doomed to fail.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Creative
Important
Vision
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I think music will be created algorhythmically, all the things that we do will be boiled down to a little computer program.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Computer
Program
Computer Program
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There's nothing worse than a director that keeps changing their mind. Because, unlike the directors I work with, I'm not decisive at all.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Directors
Mind
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You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Alongside
Appears
Box
Menu
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I like directors that give their composer a juicy role in their films. Some films have a small, minor role for music, some have a larger role.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Directors
Giving
Roles
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I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Country
Couple
Fed Up
Filled
Touring
Unhealthy
Years
Lots
Fed
Smoked
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I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the couch between the speakers and listen.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Giving
People
Speakers
Trying
Music Myself People
Couch
Few People
Park
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When you've finished the film and everybody's already made back all their money, everybody just leaves you alone and I'm very happy. That's what it has to be like.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Film
Made
Very Happy
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I'm not in a position in my career where I turn things down. I'm very easy. So the projects often dictate the direction you will go in. I welcome things that challenge me.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Careers
Challenges
Welcome
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I don't want to be typecast as the 'ambient guy' or someone who only does electronic scores. I think most of the work that comes my way is because people feel they know me musically.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Ambient
Guy
People
Thinking
Work Me People
Typecast
Electronic
Musically
Scores
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I was in the Chilli Peppers at the time and I asked myself, would I be able to wear a sock on my genitals at the age of forty and they proved me wrong because I guess they're still doing it.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Age
Able
Forty
Peppers
Sock
Time Age Myself
Proved
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I'm kind of an antisocial person. I realised when I was playing in bands that I wasn't that comfortable being on-stage, and I preferred to be behind-the-scenes. I like the seclusion of composing.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Band
Behind The Scenes
Kind
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For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can't do much with the script. I've tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I've found it turns out to be a waste of time.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Cutting
Rough
Turns
Waste
Writing
Time Work Music
Begins
Work Time Music
Prior
Script
Waste Of Time
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I actually don't see that strong of a connection between my background as a rock 'n roller and my early films. In a way I think your musical identity in film work is determined by the jobs that come your way.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Jobs
Determined
Identity
Musical
Strong
Thinking
Background
Connection
Roller
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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 / Film Score Composer
Drummer
Ten
Waste
Background
Scoring
Ten Years
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Singer/songwriters spend two or three years making an album, and then it goes up for sale and everybody pirates it and you don't make any money. Whereas, writing a film score you still get presented with a paycheck.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Two
Writing
Years
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I want to be known for having a recognizable style. I believe having your own personal identity is what makes you competitive. On the other hand, I would like to be versatile and be challenged to go in new directions.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Identity
Personal Identity
Versatile
Challenged
Believe I Believe Your
Competitive
Directions
Recognizable
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The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn. The more I do it, the more I'm humbled. I'm just always trying to get better at it. I pick up a few tricks along the way.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Tricks
Humbled
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I think the music business is becoming more difficult. It's really taken a big hit with piracy, so it's a lot more difficult. I mean, it was kind of an impractical career choice when I did it 25 years ago, but nowadays it's truly reckless.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Mean
Taken
Thinking
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I'm not sure why anybody makes a physical CD anymore when the costs are so much lower to just throw it up on iTunes. And it doesn't seem that making a hard copy of something prevents pirating any less. I mean I'm amazed that they still do that.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Amazed
Itunes
Cd
Copy
Pirating
Prevents
Throw
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I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters outside - the frogs, owls, crickets, and birds. Some of the birds around here are pretty accomplished musicians. You can learn a lot from them.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Accomplished
Bird
Frogs
Los Angeles
Musician
Owl
Angeles
Canyon
Los
Musicians
Owls
Sounds
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I guess I'd like to have my cake and eat it, too. I want to be known for having a recognizable style. I believe having your own personal identity is what makes you competitive. On the other hand, I would like to be versatile and be challenged to go in new directions.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Believe
Cake
Hands
Identity
Personal Identity
Versatile
Challenged
Believe I Believe Your
Competitive
Directions
Recognizable
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The way that I make films is that I sit down and I think, "How much money could I get with less consequences?" And that's how I start. I'd rather have less money and total autonomy than more money and start having to answer to things, because then I'm not being true and the money men are not being true.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Men
Answers
Thinking
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If you want to survive in the film industry, it's not about fighting for your visions because that's a given. It's thinking about how much is your vision going to cost, and then, what are the consequences, because you may have $100 million, but the reality is that $100 million needs to make $500 million to be a success.
Cliff Martinez / Film Score Composer
Fighting
Reality
Thinking
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