Shigeru Miyamoto Quotes

I'm also very pleased that we were able to include a full orchestrated score for Dragon's Lair 3D. The 40 different music pieces blend with the action to make you feel more a part of the whole adventure.

Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.

Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.

I believe that there are still people who believe that game music is something equal to just an effect incorporated into the game, something like a BGM. And therefore this is something that I would like to show that is not true.

Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.

To me, score is really important. I would rather not have any score if it's something that's going to detract from the film. So often when I watch films, the score is what really bothers me.

I've always said if I had to pinpoint what's more important in a scary movie, the soundscape or the visuals, I'd pick the sound.

My favorite music is when the sound is supplementing the message. I don't think it's dramatic; it's cinematic.

To me, sound is a crucial component to, really, any moviegoing experience, but particularly with suspense films or thrillers. I think you need the audience to become subtly really attuned to the soundscape in, like, this uncomfortable way.

Music can help uncover that tone that's in the fabric of the movie. Sometimes it's very plain to see, sometimes it's not.

Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.

That's a sound design thing but then we wanted to do music that would not disturb it and at the same time drive it.

A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a little flat and you put in the right song and somehow it just comes alive.

Music is half the film.

I guess many game music fans prefer original soundtrack albums.

I don't know anyone who would be exclusively working on game music, per se.

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.

In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.

Music in this film is a very important part.

It's all about theme and development anyway. That's what music is about.

Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you're going to play for people. But when you're playing for listening, you're free.

Most game music is based on loops effectively.

For over ten years or so game music has developed into a very large market.