Lee Ritenour Quotes

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.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

I try not to repeat myself in fills in all the Rush songs unless it is something simple or something I feel is my own characteristic thing.

I could draw up a list of about 30 artists who I apparently sound like. From Lady Gaga, to Katy Perry to Lana Del Rey. I don't know if it's because I'm versatile or because production affects how people judge music. I can't wait for a time I can just be classed as myself.

I have a very difficult time describing my music.

I love the pioneers like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, but when I write music, it comes out in my own way.

I've played guitar and piano for a while, so it's really fun to play music on film.

When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together.

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.

So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.

I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that's my taste in music - my taste in chord progressions and melodies.

I'm playing with music and working on different types of music. But I've realised that I can't really stray from what is my marker.

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

When you're making a record, you try to achieve stylistically what fits on you. Like a good old coat, you know what I mean?

Make your own music. It can be done.

I picked Dad's guitar up when I was 8. It hurt to play, so I put it down and picked it back up when I was 15 and dug in. The guitar helped me come out of my shell and kind of gave me an identity at school.

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

I was interested in music and making movies about musicians, but my own experiences, and doing what it felt like for me to be a drummer? Nah, I wasn't interested in that.

No matter what I do, my songs come out in a certain style, and if that sounds like Dead Kennedys, then there's probably a reason for it. Don't forget, I wrote most of those songs, music and lyrics.

A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.

When I think of Morricone, more than his using a specific instrument or a specific sound, it's his way of approaching music that sticks out.