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• ‟ My kids will come to me and ask me to listen to a 'new sound' they think they've discovered. One time it was the Beatles' 'Yesterday,' and the new sound was four strings. All of a sudden the new generation discovers the string quartet!

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• ‟ My father started me out on the flute and I began going to teachers.

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• ‟ You know, my career hasn't exactly been the sort of thing that usually happens to film composers, but I sure am glad it happened to me.

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• ‟ Sometimes people can see a movie of mine and not know until the credits roll that I wrote the score. That makes me feel good, that I can get out of that box every once in a while.

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• ‟ I used to raise the devil when my father made me practice the flute and my mother made me take piano lessons.

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• ‟ When someone asks me to do a score, I look at the picture two or three times. I never watch the rushes to pick up the mood as quickly as I can. If it's something I want to do, just watching the film will start the wheels turning.

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