“When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.” WantImportantStoriesBehindsNewsMusic IsDramaticThemeScare Author:Aaron McGruder
“We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time.” WritingMusicMusic IsThemeRubbish Author:John Lennon
“I think music is just a wonderful ingredient that helps us understand a scene better. And certainly you can overuse music, and you can use the wrong music. I probably have been guilty of these things over time. But if you use music correctly as a friend of the theme, a friend of the narrative, ou can lend some terrific connective tissue to a film.” IfsThinkingHas BeensHelpingUseFilmWonderfulSceneMusic IsGuiltyNarrativeThemeIngredientsTerrificTissues Author:Jonathan Demme
“Something I keep coming back to in my music is the tension between two extremes: healing and chaos, hope and anxiety - these big themes are inside us, flickering, all day.” TwoBigsHealingAnxietyMusic IsChaosExtremesTensionThemeComing BackTwo Extremes Author:Arca
“And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making my life into a coherency.” WritingCoursesMusic IsConstantThemeThreadMusic LovePreoccupation Book:Vintage PKD Source: Vintage PKD
“All music is rehash. There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. Try to tell the kids in the Seventies who were screaming to the Bee Gees that their music was just The Beatles redone. There is nothing wrong with the Bee Gees.” TryingKidsMusic IsNotesThemeBeesSeventiesVariationBee Gees Author:John Lennon
“I think that my music is really honest and I think I have something to say. The world revolves around so much negativity that I feel we really need something positive right now. I think people need to be encouraged to strive after those things that seem impossible. That is one of the common themes that runs through my record.” PeopleThinkingWorldNeedsFeelsSeemsRunningCommonRecordsImpossibleHonestRight NowMusic IsStriveThemeNegativityBe Encouraged Author:Amanda Stott
“I make the music as if I was scoring it. I do my best that the sounds will fit the theme of that track, but then there are many other times where it can be random and things happen for no reason, just for fun! A storyline can let me organize changes in the music better, like acts in a play.” IfsReasonPlayHappensFunSoundFitMusic IsLet MeTrackThings HappenThemeNo ReasonOrganizeStorylineJust For Fun Author:DJ QBert
“From Ennio [Morricone] I ask for themes that clothe my characters easily. He's never read a script of mine to compose the music, because many times he's composed the music before the script is ever written.” CharacterAsksWrittenMinesMusic IsScriptsTheme Author:Sergio Leone