51 Quotes About English-composer

I would also like the soloist to feel happy to put it in front of the public, because in the end he's on the firing line, not me.

I did that as a personal journey when I was a philosophy student and working as a jazz musician, so I moved from philosphy to music.

My thinking in this was as follows: in all the versions I had made everything that is played serves to accompany and support the old man's voice.

The transition from one form of percussion to another and the ways in which it's possible to blur those distinctions is quite interesting.

As much as mixing instruments, I'm also mixing acoustic space so the music will travel through some different sorts of environments.

The ideal, of course, is to have the respect of professionals and the admiration of amateurs. I suppose this was the case in the past.

Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.