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I equate composing with orchestrating. I think my music in terms of an orchestra.
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When I first began to work in pictures I tried to attract the attention of film critics, but I don't make movies to please them or myself anymore. I look for material that will entertain.
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Most people are oriented to words. When the public hears a melody, unless you put words to It, it takes longer to penetrate. It's always been like that, but I don't know why.
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My father was a steelworker who'd come over from Abruzzi, in Italy. He played in the band and he encouraged me to be a musician.
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Some people say 'flutist.' Others say 'flautist.' I just say 'flute player.' That's what I was.
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Erroll Garner is one of the few musicians I believe has a sense of humor in his music.
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I don't usually take a picture if I don't like it. I have that choice. But some pictures I like more than others.
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The Pavarotti and Galway albums were a lot of fun because I got to work with two of the best 'voices' in the world.
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If a film is not doing well, a record company will not take a chance with the score.
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Some scenes cry out for a certain kind of treatment. The kind we're conditioned by years of film-watching to expect.
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I don't like to surprise anyone with the music I compose for a film. That way, there is less trouble later on.
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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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Some producers hang-on to that old cliche that if the audience hears the music, it is no good. I say this is so much talk. Music gives the film another dimension, if it's done with the story in mind.
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Some of the prettiest music I've done was in films that really were not a smash. Your music fares as the film does.
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I've had pieces in my catalog that kind of amble along, that really never go anywhere, but are known and liked.
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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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The most immediately gratifying thing about my work is conducting a large orchestra. But the long range payoff is composing because you've written something and it's there forever.
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As a screen composer or film-music writer, I need something that I can work with in the body of the score. Like 'Charade,' 'Moon River,' 'Wine and Roses,' 'Dear Heart' - they were all just themes that grew out of the picture.
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I'm no songwriter because all of my popular songs have just been outgrowths of themes for the various pictures.
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In 'Charade,' there was a big fight. George Kennedy was playing one of his first big heavy roles; he had a hook for a hand, and he was real ugly. Cary Grant was Cary Grant. They were on a slanted roof, a very exciting fight, and we agreed there shouldn't be any music, just the grunts and the action.
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Technique is superficial. The method used in applying technique is what gives music its character.
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Too many schools across the country have cut back heavily on their music curricula.
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Amplification of guitars revolutionized the popular music scene. Youngsters look for quick fame and big money with amplified guitars and working with rock groups.
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Getting married in 1947 and settling down in Hollywood was the real beginning of my career.
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I play citified Count Basie piano. As few notes as possible, my left hand in my pocket, that kind of stuff.
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I've never gone to a singer with a song and said 'why don't you try this?' or tried to get a record like that. My head just wasn't there.
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If I'm writing songs for a country-Western picture, I have to know about country music.
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Bassoon is not an easy instrument to play and to pick it up and play it like a flute or a saxophone is quite an accomplishment.
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A good theme - like the 'Pink Panther' or 'Baby Elephant Walk' - can work all the way through the picture, which is what I did with them. So, for me, a good melody is not just a pretty tune.
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