Best quotes by Michael Giacchino on Music

Checkout quotes by Michael Giacchino on Music

• ‟ For me, growing-up music was always about telling stories.

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• ‟ I like to write a piece of music that reflects how I felt about a film as opposed to, here's this action scene; here's this set piece.

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• ‟ One of the things I was never thrilled about with 'Medal of Honor' was that it was non-stop music.

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• ‟ 'Lost,' at its core, is a science-fiction show. Live music helps lend an air of legitimacy to this otherwise crazy storyline. It makes a big difference.

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• ‟ I even went to film school at School of Visual Arts in New York City. And then, after that, I got a day job at Universal publicity department, then moved over to Disney publicity department. So I had this day job, and at night I would study music.

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• ‟ I think my writing has an old-fashioned feel to it for whatever reason. I'm just so influenced by the music that I listened to growing up, a lot of it out of the '60s, so it has a natural tendency to feel like it's from another era.

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• ‟ For me, the music is always speaking from the point of view of the characters. Rarely do you score an event.

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• ‟ I was fortunate enough in my public school that they had a full music program, and no one escaped it. It was treated as a subject that was as important as everything else, and I believe it is.

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• ‟ Music helps immensely with math skills, and math skills help immensely with music skills.

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• ‟ My parents loved music, but they weren't musicians. So my musical training as a young kid was limited to piano lessons. I was not the best student; I was awful, never practiced. But I was always interested in just messing around on the piano.

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• ‟ I feel like I'll be writing World War 2 music the rest of my life.

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• ‟ I've always, always, always listened to music since I was, like, 7 years old and made up stories in my head based on what I was hearing.

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• ‟ I grew up listening to every style of music you can imagine, and I have a love for all of it.

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• ‟ I think that to capture food in music, you really are capturing an emotional response to food.

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• ‟ Most television, the music is very much the same from show to show.

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• ‟ When I was growing up, every show had live music. Now, almost none have live music. Probably 97 percent of the shows on television are probably synthesized, or mostly synthesized, and that's a shame.

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• ‟ You've all seen movies where the music isn't working with the story. And it's either because... the story isn't working itself. Or the composer kinda just wants to write whatever they want to write, not paying attention to the thing.

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