Best quotes by Thomas Newman on Music

Checkout quotes by Thomas Newman on Music

• ‟ With film music, endings are often more difficult than beginnings, because a beginning is an underline, a way of exciting a moment, and then you have to find a way to dissipate that.

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• ‟ The experience of a film is immersive, and music is supposed to underline and help that experience.

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• ‟ 'The Starship Avalon' is perpetually mobile. The music is designed to give the impression of endless sleep and endless journey with a significant interruption that guides the story that follows. It's color and pulse followed by great size.

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• ‟ The rare opportunity of writing music for a movie about the making of 'Mary Poppins' was impossible to ignore. The fact that it could provide emotional content in relief of the struggles that the Sherman brothers and Walt Disney endured was reason enough to take on the challenge.

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• ‟ After the music that had been created by my family, I thought there was no way I could stack up.

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• ‟ You want to say as little as you can and get the most punch out of it, always with the knowledge that people are not in the theater to listen to your music so much as to respond to the movie. You're a part of that experience.

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• ‟ I just want my music to involve an audience in what's taking place onscreen.

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• ‟ Music is such an odd thing when you think about it - behind an image until you take it away, and then you realize a movie sounds blank without it.

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• ‟ In general, I probably have a shy nature. So the idea of poking out with my music is probably not something I want to do.

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• ‟ Part of me wants to stay hidden; it's no coincidence that I write movie music. It lets me stay in the shadows, in a way, but still lets me be expressive.

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• ‟ Movie music allows me to work with players as creatively as I can.

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• ‟ When you go into something like a space movie, you think there's going to be no music or little music.

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• ‟ It's always easy, I think, to raise the importance of a scene through the addition of music. But it's very awkward to end it unless there's a door slam or a gunshot or something that just takes you right out of it.

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• ‟ My father used to say it was just there, the opportunity. It was all teed up for him. The talkies were starting, and here was Hollywood waiting for people to come from New York who had the training, who could do music with a sense of dramatic context.

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• ‟ Music is one of the last elements in the creative process. It can and hopefully should tie a bow around an artistic concept, how a story moves forward, the pace of that storytelling.

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• ‟ In the end, you don't want music to be noticed as much as digested and integrated into the storytelling. And make audiences sit forward in their seats and enjoy the movie.

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• ‟ Whatever you say to yourself about it being just another movie, and you're going to do the job you always do, it ends up being a 'Bond' movie and a sense of what it is to put music to James Bond and to honor the music that exists.

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• ‟ There were moments in 'Malala,' I felt very moved by the storytelling, and 'pleased' would be the wrong word, but the music could be part of what moved me: that I was trying to contribute to something that was meaningful outside the realm of creative work but just more in terms of the world.

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• ‟ Robert Altman was a very jovial guy and obviously a famed improviser and perhaps less effective in post-production, which is like the crystallising process. So I found myself at sea often with him because we'd have conversations about what music is, and in the end, I don't know how interested he was?

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• ‟ I'm a huge fan of not overemphasising with music.

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