Alexandra Patsavas Quotes

I think that... the age of just slapping songs into movies, that's done.

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.

We use a lot of source music on some shows and none on others.

I think that commercials can really ruin a song. You know that the person sold the song for a good deal of money, and that was the tradeoff. But, music and picture can marry in a beautiful way, and the reverse also.

I think that 'The Sopranos' uses music incredibly well.

Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.

When I was doing 'The Sopranos', I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.

It's typical for video customers to often use licensed music - whether a soundtrack, background music, or sound effects - to complement their video projects.

It's very easy for people to put out music.

When I went to City of Bath College, I studied the music business.

There are a lot of aspects of filmmaking that I love, but one of my favorites is in post, finding the right song for the right moment.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'.

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.

Some directors can become concerned when it comes to music, because it's the end of the process and they're tired. They're worried that the music will intrude or waste something, that a composer will overwhelm the story.

When you make a movie with a lot of music in it, you can't always put all the songs onto the soundtrack. They just don't all fit.

I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.

When I was 17-years-old, I was in the music business.

I'm actually loving the soundtrack to 'The Secret Circle' that our music supervisor Liza Richardson puts together, like Washed Out and Cults, but my favorite band is Bootstraps.

The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience. Then we licensed the album to EMI.

I'm always looking for great songs, and not being much of a songwriter, I depend on great songwriters to send them to me. I go through tons of stuff, and sometimes you just find material that kind of fits and becomes something special.

I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.

I like to sort through music and see whatever pops out to me or inspires me. If I could have a production team going and kind of mix records with me, that would be cool; to take the records and have them sound the way I want them to sound. But I'd rather sort though music to find them things.

I find the songs I want to record by listening to as much music as I can. 'When I hear things I really like, I ask the writers to send me a tape of everything they've ever written.

As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.