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Carter Burwell

"I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music."

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"I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music."

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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"Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees."

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"Music can touch that deepest portion of the soul where nothing else can reach. It can fill our hearts with indescribable ecstasy."

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"Music is the language of the heart, it makes our soul dance with joy."

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"Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune."

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"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

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"Music is the fertilizer for heart to bloom the flower of love and peace."

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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

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"Music opens the window of the soul to let the nectar of life come in."

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"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."

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"Most films I work on, the people making the film are constantly second-guessing the executives of the studio, the producer, and the audience. It is very hard to accomplish anything in that situation."
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"I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously."
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"The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in the face."
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"I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too."
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"There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen."
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"On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable."
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"A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it."
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