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The sarangi, the ney flute are pretty ancient instruments.
Tchaikovsky was one of the great melody writers of all time.
It doesn't need to be imagined, it needs to be written down.
With any movie at all the challenge lies in the storytelling.
My father was in property, but he was a great lover of music.
It's a natural tendency of mine to not even listen to lyrics.
There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.
I just go from one movie to the next and try not to get fired.
I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.
Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.
I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.
Nowhere on your birth certificate did it say life would be fair
You repeat things because they're like your personal obsessions
I think that every record has its own life and a different sound.
You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to.
Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.
A chap can't pick the way he'll die, or we'd all do better at it.
I've been composing and performing for as long as I can remember.
The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.
I feel like I'll be writing World War 2 music the rest of my life.
You can never repeat certain things. It's only once in a lifetime.
I loved writing 'Lost.' It was like a never-ending opera, in a way.
Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument.
I actually like the collaboration of working with different artists.
I made tons of stop motion films with my friends in my neighborhood.
All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.
Final thoughts are so, you know, final. Let's call them closing words.
I love classic animation, and I especially love classic cartoon music.
I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.
I work at home but average 15,000 to 18,000 miles per year on my Honda.
Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.
When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.
I like challenges and I definitely would like to be more of a chameleon.
I love working with an orchestra, but there are many ways to make music.
Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.
I work on the types of movies that I would have loved watching as a kid.
Music is science more than art, and it is the main code of the universe.
I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.
But, yes, now I wouldn't do some of those soundtracks the way I did them.
I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.
I am delighted just to work on a good movie, no matter what the medium is.
The 'Jonny Quest' theme had a huge influence on me while I was growing up.
The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.
I've been using the Mac solely for years, and got very comfortable with it.
You have to make an audience experience with the ears as well as their eyes.
If I had kids, I don't think I would recommend they pursue a career in music.
If you look at my credits, most of them are the same directors over and over.
When I was 9, I saw 'Star Wars,' and it set me on a path to where I am today.
You get up early in the morning and you work all day. That’s the only secret.
I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.