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  • Film music has a great history of composers and performers.
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  • I had no interest or intention of ever writing music. I was a professional violinist in my 20s. I was obsessed with conducting, and I was conducting as much as I could, and I was studying as much as I could. I went to USC; I got an undergrad degree in violin and a master's degree in conducting.
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  • I think there has never ever been a career like John Williams'. That whole 'Jaws' phenomenon - there's nobody that knows how to use music like Spielberg, and John is just the perfect analog to Spielberg.
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  • Playing in an orchestra is where I learned the most about music.
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  • To this day, I adore classical music, and I'm very interested in opera, which I found out later my father was also extremely fond of.
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  • I want to write theater pieces, opera, or some kind of amalgamation where there is singing, music and theater.
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  • I'll probably always write film scores. It's the one place where a composer has almost unlimited resources at his beck and call. When music you have written works well in a film, nothing can beat it.
    - David Newman