Quotes by Ennio Morricone - Page 1

Music needs room to breathe.
Ennio Morricone / Composer
Breathe
Needs
Room
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They're all my children... every score I've done.
Ennio Morricone / Composer
Score
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I like composing music, but I love being with my family.
Ennio Morricone / Composer
Composing
Love Family Music
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I like to feel and understand people's contentment with what I've done.
Ennio Morricone / Composer
Contentment
Done People Feel
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It had a very good arrangement by Herbie Hancock, but it used existing pieces.
Ennio Morricone / Composer
Arrangement
Existing
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There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.
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Theft
Oscar
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I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.
Ennio Morricone / Composer
Thank You
Hollywood
Individualism
Said
Villa
Free
Prefer
Italy
Offered
Thank
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I often use the same harmonies as pop music because the complexity of what I do is elsewhere.
Ennio Morricone / Composer
Complexity
Elsewhere
Pop Music
Harmonies
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My more risky or avant garde music is not that well known to a wider audience, but I wish it was.
Ennio Morricone / Composer
Well Known
Risky
Wider Audience
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I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.
Ennio Morricone / Composer
Musical
Background
Experimental
Sounds
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You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation.
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Decision
Distinctive
Limitation
Factor
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My favourite type of pizza is a Napoletana: tomatoes, mozzarella, and very few anchovies. It must have a thin base.
Ennio Morricone / Composer
Favourite
Pizza
Tomatoes
Thin
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I want people to know about all the kinds of music that I write. Some believe I just write film scores, which is not true.
Ennio Morricone / Composer
Music Believe People
Scores
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Some movies work really well with music from Bach or Mahler that existed long before the film, so music has its own autonomy.
Ennio Morricone / Composer
Autonomy
Mahler
Work Music Movies
Bach
Existed
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Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the movie industry.
Ennio Morricone / Composer
Movie Industry
Stravinsky
Bach
Beethoven
Bernard
Scores
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It could have been extremely boring to write musical scores for only westerns of horror films. It was really exciting for me to work in all these various genres.
Ennio Morricone / Composer
Genres
Horror Films
Scores
Westerns
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I really like conducting my music in concerts because I'm convinced it's not just for films; it has its own life. It can live far away from the images of the movie.
Ennio Morricone / Composer
Concerts
Convinced
Far Away
Life Music Live
Films
Images
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The respect for a musical score must come from the director... If the director has no power and has to surrender to budgetary constraints, this is where we have the problem.
Ennio Morricone / Composer
Constraints
Score
Surrender
Budgetary
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There are some directors who actually fear the possible success of music. They fear that the audience or the critics will think the film has worked because there was a very good music score.
Ennio Morricone / Composer
Critics
Score
Success Good Fear
Success Good Music
Good Music
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Everyone has to die. I'm not particularly scared about it. What really frightens me is that if I go before my wife, I will leave her alone, and vice versa. The ideal would be to die together.
Ennio Morricone / Composer
Scared
Vice Versa
Die
Alone Together Me
Leave
Particularly
Frighten
Ideal
Versa
Vice
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I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I used animal sounds - as you say, the coyote sound - so the sound of the animal became the main theme of the movie.
Ennio Morricone / Composer
Animal
Psychological
Realistic
Theme
Ugly
Good Bad Way
Coyote
Main
Sounds
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I never watch the dailies. What I usually do is have a look at the rough or final cut, and I just get something from the story. Sometimes I start composing even before the director has shot anything. The dailies don't help me at all.
Ennio Morricone / Composer
Composing
Rough
Me Look Start
Final Cut
Look Me Start
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I have to see a definitive cut of the film before I even start thinking about the music, I tell the director what my feelings are and what I would like to do. He accepts what I say or discusses it or destroys it. Eventually, we have to find a compromise.
Ennio Morricone / Composer
Compromise
Accepts
Destroys
Definitive
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I can't be enthusiastic as soon as I write something on the music sheet. The music sheet is only the beginning: it has to be listened to, played by the instruments, and then heard by the director, but most importantly, it has to be listened to by the public.
Ennio Morricone / Composer
Enthusiastic
Heard
Instruments
Played
Beginning
Director
Importantly
Listened
Sheet
Soon
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If you scroll through all the movies I've worked on, you can understand how I was a specialist in westerns, love stories, political movies, action thrillers, horror movies, and so on. So in other words, I'm no specialist, because I've done everything. I'm a specialist in music.
Ennio Morricone / Composer
Action
Horror
Thrillers
Love Music Movies
Horror Movies
In Other Words
Love Stories
Scroll
Specialist
Westerns
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I don't know the names of any pop musicians. Pop music is standardised; it's made to please the largest audience possible. I also compose to please a large audience, but when you listen to my music, you understand that I have studied and applied the whole history of composition.
Ennio Morricone / Composer
Please
Pop Music
Studied
Applied
Compose
Large
Large Audience
Musicians
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When I have to score a film, I watch the movie first and then start thinking about it. And from that moment on, it is as if I were pregnant. I then have to deliver the child, so from that moment on, I think always about the music - even when I go to the grocery store, I think about it.
Ennio Morricone / Composer
Movie
Music
Film
Pregnant
Score
Thinking
Child
First
Deliver
Watch
Even
Grocery
Grocery Store
Moment
Start
Store
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I dislike cats. I like horses, some monkeys, and sweet dogs that aren't too aggressive. I used to have a wonderful, big cat, and one day I came into the kitchen and it was on the table, ruining all the food we were about to eat. I was so annoyed that I took it to a friend's house in the country.
Ennio Morricone / Composer
Aggressive
Annoyed
Cat
Dislike
Monkeys
Cats
Dogs
Horses
Ruining
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De Palma is delicious! He respects music; he respects composers. For 'The Untouchables,' everything I proposed to him was fine, but then he wanted a piece that I didn't like at all, and of course we didn't have an agreement on that. It was something I didn't want to write - a triumphal piece for the police.
Ennio Morricone / Composer
Agreement
Delicious
Fine
Police
Composers
Piece
Proposed
Respects
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I was born in 1928, so in 1943, 1944, we had the war in Rome. There were a lot of hardships, a lack of food, many shortages. So when I worked with the Americans, the English, and the Canadians soon after the war, when I played with them, they paid me with food. That will give you an idea how widespread poverty was at that time.
Ennio Morricone / Composer
Paid
Poverty
Rome
Played
Canadians
Hardships
Widespread
Shortages
Soon
Worked
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In my youth, cinemas showed two films in one day. I used to watch both of them. It may sound strange, but 'West Side Story' was the only musical I liked. I didn't like musicals, or films with songs, at all. I always thought they were not real, that the songs sounded a little bit false. But in the case of 'West Side Story,' things were different.
Ennio Morricone / Composer
West Side
West Side Story
Cinemas
False
Musicals
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In music, what is very important is temporality of space and length, based on the breathing space the director gives the music within the film, by separating the music from various elements of reality, like noises, dialogues... That's how you treat music properly, but it doesn't always happen this way. Music is often blamed, but it's not its fault.
Ennio Morricone / Composer
Breathing
Elements
Length
Separating
Space Music Always
Based
Blamed
Director
Fault
Noises
Properly
Treat
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