Carmine Coppola Quotes

The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further.

Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.

You've got to be an editor in order to be a good composer.

I am only 30, and music is like a subject for me. I work like a student in every film.

I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.

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

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

I am a muso, and I love doing it. I assumed that would be my career for a long time. I always wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think that anyone could actually be that full-time, so I always go back to conducting and arranging and playing. If you scratch me, I'm a musician.

I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music.

I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.

I write and record all the time; it's my hobby and my passion.

As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that.

I don't know the names of any pop musicians. Pop music is standardised; it's made to please the largest audience possible. I also compose to please a large audience, but when you listen to my music, you understand that I have studied and applied the whole history of composition.

I want people to know about all the kinds of music that I write. Some believe I just write film scores, which is not true.

I was someone who knew what they wanted to do for so long. I was always fascinated by music, always a student of pop.

I started out with piano when I was little. That, for songwriting, is my favorite instrument.

In order to write music, you need lots of Tabasco sauce.

I've done some scoring in the past, but I want to get into it on a bigger level - a Danny Elfman level.

When I went to college, it became more of a hobby, and that's when I think I got the realest music education. It wasn't something that I had to do. It wasn't an obligation.

Music for films allow a great deal of diversity and the more you widen your skills, the better you become.

Most of the best songwriters that ever lived couldn't read music.

I started at such a young age learning every style of music, the country and the bluegrass and the western swing and the rock - everything.

I got books full of music.

I write music for film because I love it.