Marvin Hamlisch Quotes

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

I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.

In the future, I kind of like the idea of doing music for film. I think that would be a nice job. I've always liked the sound aspect in movies. I guess once I have more instruments under my belt, it could be something I could do.

I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.

You can use existing music in a film, but creating a soundtrack is very different. One note can be enough.

I've always wanted to go into film scoring.

A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.

I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.

Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.

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'm a hip hop dude who loves scoring for film.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.

The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.

When you're working on film music, you're only working on 20, 30-minute sections at a time.

I like soundtracks and I like film.

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

I think I've done more recording in the past 10 years than most people, but it's all been directed toward film composing and soundtracks. Just the same, it's been great.

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.

Music is half the film.

That was probably the stamp that went into my mind, because I worked in television for many years, doing that kind of music, so that really was my strong forte.