Quotes About Ennio Morricone

I often use the same harmonies as pop music because the complexity of what I do is elsewhere.

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.

A lot of Ennio Morricone's music is just - it's very soulful, very cinematic, and very psychedelic.

To me, the Ennio Morricone kind of sound is a derivative of soul music.

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.