Alexandre Desplat Quotes

When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics

When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.

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

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

To my mind and ear, there is simply nothing that compares to the musical sophistication of a late Beethoven, Bartok, Schubert or Brahms work for minimal forces.

Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.

Beethoven's symphonies are not 'relaxing.' They are the most exciting things that have ever been created by a human being.

Composers are very individual creatures.

I'd always envisioned 'The Big Beat' leading off 'The Tale of the Tape' with the biggest drumbeat the rock world had ever heard. I knew I had something good… but I had no idea just how good.

Music is all about creativity.

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

Movie music allows me to work with players as creatively as I can.

I'm a big Beethoven fan, and you'll struggle to find a three-minute song on any of his stuff.

I don't believe in a composer who is only able to compose, who can't play or conduct, can only use a computer. If that trend continues there will be no more symphonies, no more oratorios.

I didn't have to apply my mind to the aspects of scales and playing, and instead, I focused on creativity. I wrote music, but I didn't 'practice' it. So yeah, you can always get better and improve your technique, but hopefully, that comes through being a musician and composing and being a creative individual.

Most of everything I've ever written actually was written on acoustic. 'Do You Feel' was written on electric. 'I'm in You' was written on piano.

I just love music. I think it's art.

Just like using an instrument, a song calls for different things.

Sometimes a song can be born in few minutes, if the feeling is right, some other times it can take days.

My mother was an opera singer and my father is a clarinet player, composer and conductor.

I love playing music. There's no way I could do anything else.

Improvising is writing, too - there was no music and now there's music. So that's composition. And any time you take any sort of a performance liberty, you're making a compositional choice. I don't know a serious performer who hasn't made compositional decisions, who hasn't engaged in the art of composition.

Writing music is very, very clinical. You just sit down at a piano, map out a theme and when all the technicalities come together, out pours the music.