Jon Oringer Quotes

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

I got a lot of film companies approaching me to write some songs for their films.

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

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

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

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

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

Part of doing mash-ups is getting the legal rights to use the songs. If you're going to do a mash-up with five songs, you should probably find 10 songs, because you're only going to get half of them cleared. It's a real collaborative effort.

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

I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much.

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

Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.

I supply the music for Vampires, which is a new series that's coming out.

There's a lot of money in doing score music. You can get a chance to get nominated for an Oscar; I would love to get nominated again.

I think it's important to remember that music supervision is not just about a fantastic record collection or knowledge of music, although that certainly helps for aspiring music supervisors.

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.

It's a deliberate choice. I am a fervent supporter of the idea that you don't have to have wall-to-wall music in good films.

I've copyrighted 3,000 songs.

As long as you have a percentage of a song, that lasts forever. You have to study the business. Don't just be in it for money. You have to understand what you're in it for, then get your money.

I feel we have a music industry within the film industry.

I'll go to the movies and hear 'Angel From Montgomery' in some film, and nobody ever even told me about it. They don't tell you your stuff is going to be in a movie. They don't have to, so they don't tell you. You get paid eventually.

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'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.