Howard Shore Quotes

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

I started out coming from more of a concert music background. It just turns out that 20th-century music techniques lend themselves to scary movies and horror movies.

I equate composing with orchestrating. I think my music in terms of an orchestra.

I love 'Lawrence of Arabia,' big sweeping films. I want my films to feel that way, to be on a big canvas.

Muti is going to do the Alpine Symphony this year. He will do it well because it is not very well known.

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

I've been kind of listening to the composer Britten and his rendition of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The opening track is a choral section where all the weird fairies, who are played by kids in the production, sing. It's a crazy opening melody and chord sequence - really amazing.

Concert repertoire is some of the most beautiful music ever written, and I frequently seek out opportunities to perform it.

I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe.

A symphony is no joke.

My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I want to turn around and look.

My poor friends, you know as much about starting a riot as the Italians know about writing a symphony.

The 'Mozart Symphony No. 27' is an early composition. I find it charming.

A lot of people don't know that Beethoven, when he wrote the Fifth Symphony, that second movement, he took eight years to figure that out!

When I was just coming up, I always wanted to be able to perform to a large crowd with a symphony.

De Palma is delicious! He respects music; he respects composers. For 'The Untouchables,' everything I proposed to him was fine, but then he wanted a piece that I didn't like at all, and of course we didn't have an agreement on that. It was something I didn't want to write - a triumphal piece for the police.

That's the reason why I'm making albums. That's the reason why I love hip-hop: It's a challenge every time.

'Game of Thrones' offers such a wide range of instruments that I use and stylistically for what I'm doing, but 'Westworld' is the same.

I would love to do more superhero work; as a young film composer, that is one of the things you dream of.

I've never been very good at creating absolute music, which has no non-musical dimension to it. I think that is why filmmakers gravitated toward my work.

What I love about film music is the variety. On one movie, you might be asked to do a completely electronic score, and then another might ask you to do orchestral only.

I would love to compose for an entire film because it will be a different experience.