Steven Price Quotes

I would really love to do the score for movies. Pick the music and work with composers. I don't know if I'd be any good at it, but I love music.

If you're a film composer, you have the music tell the story of the character.

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.

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

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the movie industry.

I'm blessed to be working with wizards like Vishal Bhardwaj as well as many young composers.

I have done songs here and there. But I have never scored a film. That is something I would like to do at some point.

Every time I see a film or TV show, I think about how that composer made those choices and how that director envisioned music and how that could work onstage or in a film and how you could support that even further by putting lyrics to it.

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

Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job.

I always really wanted to do film scoring, largely because I hate writing lyrics. I just won't do it. I need help with the words.

I don't claim to be a composer, and I realize my approach is pretty dopey in comparison to the true masters of score work. That said, if someone thinks what I do specifically would work for their film, then, of course, let's see what we can do.

My experience and growth in the film music world and the time I've spent studying legendary film composers have given me depth of insight into how music can inspire a range of emotions.

Without the knowledge of music, it would be very hard to write film music. There are so many films, and each one has a different historical background and everything.

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

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

When I compose for any film, I always work with the story in mind.

I've always wanted to go into film scoring.

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'm not a great guitarist, but I do bits and bobs. I'm mainly a songwriter and a composer. I've done a lot of scoring and some stuff for British pop music that did pretty well, but I've mainly been working on my own stuff with Duncan Sheik.

I consider myself a composer.

Each one of us had a little story to tell and each recording was based on that. Lou played all of the music but we both sort of kicked around some cords during the writing phase.

I've composed a fair amount in my life, and some of them have made it on to the screen, some compositions that I've done, a few. And I like doing that. I had never really considered doing a full-length thing. I've worked with other people creating full-length pieces.

The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge.