Italian - Composer | November 10, 1928 -
When I have to score a film, I watch the movie first and then start thinking about it. And from that moment on, it is as if I were pregnant. I then have to deliver the child, so from that moment on, I think always about the music - even when I go to the grocery store, I think about it.
Ennio Morricone
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I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.
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I often use the same harmonies as pop music because the complexity of what I do is elsewhere.
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It had a very good arrangement by Herbie Hancock, but it used existing pieces.
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I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.
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Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the movie industry.
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I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I used animal sounds - as you say, the coyote sound - so the sound of the animal became the main theme of the movie.
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My favourite type of pizza is a Napoletana: tomatoes, mozzarella, and very few anchovies. It must have a thin base.
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I don't know the names of any pop musicians. Pop music is standardised; it's made to please the largest audience possible. I also compose to please a large audience, but when you listen to my music, you understand that I have studied and applied the whole history of composition.
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It could have been extremely boring to write musical scores for only westerns of horror films. It was really exciting for me to work in all these various genres.
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In my youth, cinemas showed two films in one day. I used to watch both of them. It may sound strange, but 'West Side Story' was the only musical I liked. I didn't like musicals, or films with songs, at all. I always thought they were not real, that the songs sounded a little bit false. But in the case of 'West Side Story,' things were different.
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My more risky or avant garde music is not that well known to a wider audience, but I wish it was.
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