Best quotes by Jonathan Demme on Music

Checkout quotes by Jonathan Demme on Music

• ‟ I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. There is little artifice involved. There's no acting. I love it.

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• ‟ If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

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• ‟ I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.

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• ‟ I still go out, but not a lot. If I go to see music, it's usually to the Blue Note, jazz clubs, things like that. When I travel, I find out where the jazz clubs are.

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• ‟ I adore film, and I adore music.

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• ‟ I often find myself feeling that filming music is somehow the purest form of filmmaking. This crazed collision of sound and images, the intense collaboration, these incredibly cinematic performances. And for the nights you're filming, a non-player like me gets to feel somehow part of the band.

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• ‟ I like seeing the cameras because it helps visualize how the music people and the movie people teamed up.

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• ‟ 'Neil Young Heart of Gold', that was a valentine to Nashville and country music in the Grand Ole Opry tradition and Hank Williams.

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