Jason Moran Quotes

I finally wasn't interested in writing music that played while actors talked.

Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.

I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.

Badlapur' has got an excellent soundtrack even though it wasn't planned at all in the beginning.

I don't like a lot of monitors on stage. I like the real raw sound of the open piano.

Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself.

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don't think about it that way, but music is actually dialogue. And sometimes music is the final, finished, additional dialogue. Music can be one of the final characters in the film.

Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica.

I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.

I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.

I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.

For me, music is in the choice of what not to play as much as in what you've chosen to play.

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

Music in this film is a very important part.

I always related my favorite music to the movies.

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

Folk is bare bones music.

Music is a very, very powerful tool that filmmakers use to sway people into emotions that they intend you to feel.

I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.

James Horner, James Newton Howard, John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Michael Giacchino, or Ramin Djawadi would all be a dream come true for a 'Throne of Glass' soundtrack.

Movies and television have a way of using a soundtrack not just to create a mood but to literalize it. You could always count on a master class in splitting the difference between artistry and obviousness during the so-called Blaxploitation era.

There's much more music now in movies than there used to be. Maybe sometimes there's too much music.

A lot of Ennio Morricone's music is just - it's very soulful, very cinematic, and very psychedelic.

I like to have space between the notes. I like to use silence.