What’s the point of getting up in the morning unless you’re gonna have an adventure? As the moments of our life are ticking away you have to be aware that it needs to be an adventure.
You always hear these stories of how Hollywood is so merciless on composers and how they all get beaten up. Nobody beats me up as much as I beat myself up. This is what I love doing and I have one life to do it in, and I better do it right. I better do it well.
I’ve spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn’t reach the heart.
As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.
I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don’t want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.
Why get up in the morning unless you’re going to have an adventure?
Never let your wife prevent you from buying equipment. A car will not buy a synthesizer, but a synthesizer can buy a car.
If I play you a piece of music, that’s when you can truly look inside me.
There’s a power that movies and music has, that can move you and motivate you to look at your neighbor in a slightly more respectful way, and look at cultures in a more inclusive way.
Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
If you talk to any director, they’ll say music is fifty percent of the movie.
You’re going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.
Electronic music lends itself to an abstract way of storytelling, so it keeps evolving. Theres a whole movement truly driving music further and there is no other music innovating as much as film music.
If something happened where I couldnt write music anymore, it would kill me. Its not just a job. Its not just a hobby. Its why I get up in the morning.
What are you going to do when you are not saving the world?
You have to remain flexible, and you must be your own critic at all times.
The rules are: The more playful we get, the more we can get rid of the rules.
I think one of the things which always is forgotten in music class, is the first thing you have to do as a musician is you have to learn how to listen.