A good score should have a point of view all of its own. It should transcend all that has gone before, stand on its own two feet and still serve the movie. A great soundtrack is all about communicating with the audience, but we all try to bring something extra to the movie that is not entirely evident on screen.

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As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.

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adventure life needs

I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don’t want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.

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want feelings writing

You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.

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only-time failing

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart.

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complicated heart trying

Never let your wife prevent you from buying equipment. A car will not buy a synthesizer, but a synthesizer can buy a car.

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car wife buying

If I play you a piece of music, that's when you can truly look inside me.

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Get rid of the shitty sound. Life's too short.

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If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

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I think one of the things which always is forgotten in music class, is the first thing you have to do as a musician is you have to learn how to listen.

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musician class thinking

Why get up in the morning unless you’re going to have an adventure?

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get-up morning adventure

The thing that hasn't changed, and I don't think will ever change, is that the operative word in music is "play." You have to have a playfulness about it. As the world shifts, it's starting to understand more and more that to have a playfulness about any and everything is actually the way of having a better life, or being more creative, or being more productive.

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play fun thinking

I've never had a real job in my life. I didn't learn anything, I was terrible at school. It was just this thing. Music was all I wanted to do.

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real jobs school

You always hear these stories of how Hollywood is so merciless on composers and how they all get beaten up. Nobody beats me up as much as I beat myself up. This is what I love doing and I have one life to do it in, and I better do it right. I better do it well.

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beats hollywood stories

If something happened where I couldnt write music anymore, it would kill me. Its not just a job. Its not just a hobby. Its why I get up in the morning.

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writing morning jobs

The rules are: The more playful we get, the more we can get rid of the rules.

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fun

I wake up around noon, light a cigarette, get a cup of coffee, sit in the bathtub for an hour and daydream, and I usually come up with some ideas... It's a very irresponsible life. The only decisions I make are about the notes I'm writing.

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coffee light writing

There's a power that movies and music has, that can move you and motivate you to look at your neighbor in a slightly more respectful way, and look at cultures in a more inclusive way.

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culture way moving

You can only make a good noise on the guitar if you're committed. Little careful noise doesn't work. You have to be bold.

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guitar noise littles

Inspired music arises from an inspired movie which arises from an inspired script.

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inspired scripts arise

What are you going to do when you are not saving the world.

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defense-mechanisms saving world