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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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"I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?"
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"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."
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"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."
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"Music is not my life. My life is music."
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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."
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"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."
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"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils."
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"Music is the melody whose text is the world."
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"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."
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"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music."
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"Today it's not culture; it's box office."
Culture
"My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan."
Experience
"I prefer to write music for family films. I like people."
Family
"Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero."
Being
"The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s."
Society
"I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness."
Familiarity
"Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions."
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"When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years."
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