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I just called to say, 'I love you.
I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.
I like to write film music that stands on its own.
Film music, over the years, has taken from everybody.
I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.
Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
Film music has given me everything - career and popularity.
So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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I'm constantly trying to introduce new voices in Tamil film music.
I don't listen to film music at all. I don't want to be influenced.
I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!
I see a parallel industry for independent music blooming alongside film music.
When you're working on film music, you're only working on 20, 30-minute sections at a time.
Film music is always given a step-motherly treatment though it is the most popular form of music.
What makes film music different is that we are always given a situation and we make the song accordingly.
Stravinsky influenced film music in general - those stabbing chords and rhythms from 'The Rite of Spring.'
I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
Hindi film music has always been completely driven by the plot. We singers never had any say in compositions.
I can't really say that film music inspired me; it is more the films themselves, in connection with the music.
I got recognition because of film music, but people start recognizing me as an artiste more because of singles.
I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes I listen to Indian music quite often and other non- film music.
I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other non- film music.
Film music really is about point of view and you can shift it wherever you want really depending on how you look at it.
My audiences are generally mixed. Some people like techno, others are into the pop music, and others enjoy my film music.
For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.
My parents had a lot of movie soundtracks that they brought back from the States. So very early on I heard film music at home.
To be honest, I hadn't realised the greatness of film music till I was exposed to film songs after I started living in Mumbai.
Robert Townson at Varese is a huge fan of film music and has really done a lot to educate audiences about film music and scores.
Eventually, I began singing in various shows. It was then that I started appreciating the breadth and depth of Hindi film music.
I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?
I think it's great to see that there is such a connection to film music and the way people react or connect to a character or scene.
I'd say for a film composer, 'Star Wars' is kind of like the holy grail of film music. It's probably the best film music ever written.
Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may be the only one on the list.
In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.
In the West, film music is completely different and independent from their popular music. The two industries are separate and don't interfere much.
There's a whole gamut of things to do with film music that don't apply when you're making a record or if you're writing a concert piece or something.
Does film music really matter to the average moviegoer? A great score, after all, can't save a bad film, and a bad score - so it's said - can't sink a good one.
The consumption of information, films, music has been changing in recent decades. It's hard to know what will become the film that can not easily reach [audiences].
Just as I have broken the monopoly of film music as being synonymous with popular music in our country, I want to prove that cricket is not the only glamorous sport.
Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.
Without the knowledge of music, it would be very hard to write film music. There are so many films, and each one has a different historical background and everything.
What I love about film music is the variety. On one movie, you might be asked to do a completely electronic score, and then another might ask you to do orchestral only.
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I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.
My dream that I followed and that I'm living now is that I actually always wanted to go to music college, play in a band, do a world tour, and then eventually get into film music.
It's a funny thing with the inspiration thing. There's always loads of music around that I absolutely love and films going back to when I started making film music in the mid-80's.
Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
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.
My experience and growth in the film music world and the time I've spent studying legendary film composers have given me depth of insight into how music can inspire a range of emotions.