Musical Score Quotes

I didn't know a single musical soundtrack, really, growing up. Nobody listened to musicals. That wasn't a thing I did.

Strings have been a part of my career and my albums since the very first day. 'Snowbird' had beautiful strings.

I'm a composer like every maestro on this earth.

I love 'South Pacific.' It's got beautiful music. But there have been so many, you know, renditions of this in high school or college productions.

For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work.

There's kind of a cool feel that happens every now and then. I guess that feel is the thing that makes the score its own score. But, I don't know exactly what that is. So, it's hard for me to answer that question.

I have thought about some kind of musical involving my music. That would be kind of interesting. I have thought of it in that way, as a creator of something, not so much a performer. So that's in my head.

It's hard to incorporate dance into movies I think.

After 'Spelling Bee,' I started landing more jobs... I got 'Candide' at New York City Opera.

Stepping back into theatre, a childhood dream, I always felt like I would be onstage. I hadn't imagined myself in a composer role... I find it so satisfying to be behind the scenes and writing the music and watching it elevated and characterized by different voices than my own. It's so exciting.

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.

I was always proud of the score to 'Newsies.' The movie is good, but it was under-budgeted.

I wish I could write music notation. Even if I couldn't play it, I wish I could just write it.

I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.

I'm writing a musical. I am. I was able to buy the rights to 'The Preacher's Wife,' which starred Whitney Houston... I'm writing a whole new score and all the lyrics for it.

I think it's a big deal to have a great soundtrack for a movie.

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

A thriller or an action movie would entice me. A sportsperson or a musician's biopic sounds exciting, too.

When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head.

I'd love to play a musician in a film.

There is one live track on the album, 'Einsamaller,' and that had a conductor - Eyvind Kang.

When I was seven, I saw 'Sister Act 2,' and I fell in love with the performing aspect of music.

I'd love to do a whole soundtrack to a movie.

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience.

I love 'An American in Paris.' That's the one for me. Some of the visual ideas in that film are just haunting and very free.