Quotes About Music

I don't just like fillers, and I never put a filler on a record. I mean, I want every song on every album that I do to be a potential single.

My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.

When I'm making sentimental trancey fluffiness, I like to have some equally saccharine aromas filling the room.

I've always been real close to film world. I love film, and I will do things in film, but music is more satisfying. It feels more like me.

I grew up loving film and television. Film, in particular. I would never feel as inspired - it's sort of the same for music with me as well, but I never got the same kind of feeling with music as I did with watching film.

But in the Indian film industry, from the moment a child is born, he is taught music, he is taken for classical classes.

I love music and I think the Indian film industry is known for its music.

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.

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

When I was young, I wanted, most of all, to be a writer of films and film music. But Middlesbrough in 1968 wasn't the place to be if you wanted to do movie scores.

When you're working on film music, you're only working on 20, 30-minute sections at a time.

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

With film music, endings are often more difficult than beginnings, because a beginning is an underline, a way of exciting a moment, and then you have to find a way to dissipate that.

There was a time when people were afraid that film music would totally displace classical music.

I was always screwing around with music, but I really wanted to go to film school when I was in high school. I guess what happened was that I didn't get into Tisch, that's what happened. I got deferred. And I went to Hampsire and ended up making music like everybody else there.

When I'm not filming, I do rock n' roll; when I'm not doing rock n' roll, I do filming.

The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather than the music.

My favorite thing is to have collectives. Even when it comes to filmmaking as well, filmmaking and music and most art in general, I feel like everyone should have the same say. If you're in a collective, I feel like everyone should have the same say.

It is immensely enjoyable to work for an album because there's a lot more creative freedom. In films sometimes, all that the makers care about is making the music commercially appealing.

I believe that the environment at home has been fairly secular and liberal. And most times, it comes from my mother. Our culture is very strong, but at the same time, she's a very free-spirited person. She's an artiste, and that's the environment I grew up in, where films and music were respected and meditated upon.

Definitely dub is in my body forever. I think I hear everything through a dub filter. Even when I play rock music, I play through a dub filter.

I got to know myself in the sense that I like to do songs with no filter. I'm not afraid of saying things that are real.

There are so many bands that I'm kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filtering my experience of the actual music.

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.