Brian Setzer Quotes

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

I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling.

I write music every day.

Playing music is just one of the best things. I can't retire.

I've learned to sell my music, I've learned to direct, I've written screenplays... All of this fulfilled my artistic needs but also put food on the table.

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

Composing for movies is not an easy job - its a different art altogether, and moreover, I don't want to get involved in too many things at one time and want to concentrate on my shows and albums.

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 always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.

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

I was busy enough when I was just a musician. I wasn't making all that much money but I was busy.

I've been writing music since I was a teenager. I play keyboards. I'm not much of a player, but I can write. That will come along. I'd like to do a musical.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

My main thing is music; it's what I do.

My only real hobby is playing music. I write a lot of music on guitar and keyboards and hope one day to make a record or maybe even write the score for a film.

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

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

No, my son's a songwriter and he does that.

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

I consider myself a composer.

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.

My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned some money. As a child, I wasn't sure about a career goal, but I was always fascinated by electronic gadgets, specially musical equipment.

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.

I am a musician, ya know; music is my world.