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James Horner Quotes

American - Composer | August 14, 1953 - June 22, 2015

I don't use a computer in writing at all. I'm sort of old-fashioned about it.

Writing Old-Fashioned Computer Sort

To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use a computer when I write, and I don't use a piano. I'm at a desk writing, and it's very broad strokes and notes as colors on a palette.

Me Painting Colors Writing Desk

I think very abstractly when I'm writing. Then, as the project moves on, it becomes more like sculpting.

Writing Think More Project Like

I'm used to working with the director and producer, and that's my relationship. It's very simple.

Relationship Simple Director Producer

The sound world that I created for 'Avatar' had to be very different, really, than anything I ever created before. There is also three hours of music.

Music World Three Sound Anything

You have to make an audience experience with the ears as well as their eyes.

Eyes Experience You Audience Well

The music's job is to get the audience so involved that they forget how the movie turns out.

Music Job Forget Audience Out Get

I tend to write it and then let go emotionally.

Go Write Let Go Then Emotionally

My tastes went all over the place, from Strauss to Mahler. I was never a big Wagner or Tchaikovsky fan. Benjamin Britten, Tallis, all the early English Medieval music, Prokofiev, some Russian composers, mostly the people that were the colorists, the French.

Music People Early Place Never Over

I think people hire me for the slightly weird angle that I bring. Part of the trick is keeping it sort of simple; you have to give the impression of not that much music playing when there's really a lot.

Music Simple People Me Think Weird

When I do a film score, I am basically nothing more than a fancy pencil for hire. I don't own any of the music when I am - it belongs to the film company - and likewise, when I am done, even if I come up with something astounding that I may want to revisit... in the world of film composition, you can't do that.

Music I Am World You Done Want

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