Best quotes by Howard Shore on Music

Checkout quotes by Howard Shore on Music

• ‟ Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

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• ‟ 'Saturday Night Live' was actually started with a show that Lorne Michaels and I did at a summer camp called Timberlane in Ontario when we were 14 and 15. We would do an improvisational show with music, comedy and acting.

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• ‟ When you're working on film music, you're only working on 20, 30-minute sections at a time.

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• ‟ I like to read and dream and create music that is based on the imagery of text. If you have the combination of a great book and a great filmmaker, what could be better for the composer?

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• ‟ It is very gratifying to see the music from 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy find a new life on the concert stage as it is performed by different orchestras and choruses throughout the world.

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• ‟ My first score for 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy, 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' was the beginning of my journey into the world of Tolkien, and I will always hold a special fondness for the music and the experience.

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• ‟ I love working with an orchestra, but there are many ways to make music.

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• ‟ The music for 'The Departed' could have been played by an orchestra, but you make a decision about orchestration based on the context of the film. You want the music to broaden the scope of a film, not just repeat what you're seeing.

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• ‟ A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture to express different storytelling ideas.

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• ‟ I think 'Two Towers' is a completely distinct film from 'Fellowship of the Ring' or 'Return of the King.' I think that you can watch them as a group and watch how the story evolves, but I think each one was made in its own entirety, and each one has its own palate of sound and music and color and characterization.

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• ‟ All of the silent films had live music accompaniment, so it's actually a very rich period in music.

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