Musical Manipulation Quotes

Once we're inside a tune, we can do anything with it.

I can't play guitar, but I can sure make it howl.

I always thought that putting tons of reverb on my voice was kind of the equivalent of airbrushing. And I wanted other girls and women to hear a real female voice that wasn't completely manipulated.

I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.

We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.

I see movies all the time that manipulate you by playing a high note on the piano or some string instrument, and suddenly you're crying. I'm sick of being told what to think.

I do craft songs, that this is designed. It's almost like the song was written to produce this desired effect. And it probably really works for somebody. It's maybe somebody's favorite tune, and it's really hard to come down on that, even if I feel a little embarrassed for it. Because some songs are written like a commercial, and that can be a little strange.

Many film scores try to force an emotion into a story that inherently is not there in the first place.

I try to take the foundations of what music is and add some type of twist to it.

I can sing in my head and rearrange the tune of a song, note per note. I am a nerd.