Ryuichi Sakamoto Quotes

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.

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

Normally, when people compose for film, you give them the film, and they look at it, and they compose it.

I had a talent for scoring films. I just developed it.

I've not used a score in any of my films so far.

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.

I'm getting to compose music for diverse language films from all over the country.

I've always wanted to go into film scoring.

I write music for film because I love it.

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

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.

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.

I wouldn't mind doing a soundtrack someday.

In the future, I kind of like the idea of doing music for film. I think that would be a nice job. I've always liked the sound aspect in movies. I guess once I have more instruments under my belt, it could be something I could do.

The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather than the music.

I've often thought that my background in rock 'n' roll has gone to waste in film work. My background was that I was a rock 'n' roll drummer and I don't think I used drums in my first ten years of film scoring.

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

I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?

I think of myself as a film composer.

I really wanna get my paws on scoring a film.

I think, for me, a way to really come up with new ideas and come up with new ways of writing music is to create a unique sound palette or soundscape for all the films I'm working on.

My main object is to write, to keep learning. I always try to perfect my composition. But I do like writing film and opera music. I believe that it fulfills the needs of particular situations.

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

I had difficulty in grasping how music was made for films. It was a huge learning curve and the toughest phase of my life.