Julie Taymor Quotes

I've always had a fascination about mixing music.

Everyone making electronic music has the same tool kits and templates. You listen, and you feel like it can be done on an iPad. If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

By the mid-'60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas.

Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Time. I would tend to do that all the time, you know? I tended to do all sorts of weird things. Just to get effects.

People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.

Artists are overcompensating with this aggressive, energetic, hyperstimulating music - it's like someone shaking you. But it can't move people on an emotional level.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.

I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.

I write music with an exclamation point!

What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper on that world.

Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.

The fact is that we take music very seriously.

Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.

I am an inventor of music.

I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.

I've done a lot of movies that don't have any music in them, and I've always sort of had a kind of wary attitude about music because it can be so manipulative, and also because with pop music, I feel like everybody kind of has their own relationship to songs.

I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.

I'm taking a lot of freestyle music and flipping it.

I think songs and visuals are so evocative of each other.

When I make music, it's a very visual thing. Conjures up a lot of images.

If I wanted an open space, I could do a documentary about fishes. Then I would have an open space to play my music. That's not how I visualize the work I'm doing.

Burzum is not a political or religious band, or even an anti-religious band. Burzum is music - art if you like - and the interpretation of art lies in the eye of the beholder.

Sometimes I feel people try to be too complex. Some of the greatest songs are so simple. The simplest phrases.