Hildur Gudnadottir Quotes

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

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

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

The intelligent use of contemporary music in film has an enormous audience.

I just think I started off like many composers, just in different fields of music I was doing. I started doing a lot of commercials and jingles, and then that led to doing TV and then films and games and TV.

I'm a film composer, but I'm a hip-hop guy.

Before me, music soundtracks were sort of afterthoughts.

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.

It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

I want to take Justin Bieber for a month and just lock him up in a cage where we sit and make music. He's one of the most successful people in the world, but his music could be so much tighter.

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

I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.

I like pop music. Earnestly. Most of the greatest technicians, mix engineers, and players are working in pop music.

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

You can't get the visual thing on the record as much as you'd like to. We produced this album, and we'd never done that before, except when we produced singles for ourselves.

When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'

What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.

I can't stand making records.

I want to produce the best popular music I can.

There's actually a lot of producers that I like to listen to.

I grew up seeing my sister in the studio. I would go to recording sessions and take notes.

I've done entire scores for I don't know how many films and series. I never kept track; I suppose it's up in the hundreds.

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

When I got my MacBook, I started playing around with Garageband a lot. It was just a creative outlet. I put everything into it. I would skip all my classes just to be making my songs. Stuff like that made me feel good.