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Danny Elfman

"So I've learned in the past, if a company approaches me and they want something like this, or something like that that I've done and I turn them down, they're going to do it anyhow."

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"So I've learned in the past, if a company approaches me and they want something like this, or something like that that I've done and I turn them down, they're going to do it anyhow."

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Akshay Vasu

"One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise."

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Akshay Vasu

"Better be alone than in bad company."

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Akshay Vasu

"The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it."

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Akshay Vasu

"The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company."

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Akshay Vasu

"Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer."

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Akshay Vasu

"The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring."

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Akshay Vasu

"A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult."

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Akshay Vasu

"This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it."

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Akshay Vasu

"We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company."

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Akshay Vasu

"As a small company our fastest way to market was going to be by working with other retailers that were known for pioneering new technologies and categories."

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Danny Elfman
"I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound."

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Danny Elfman
"There's kind of a cool feel that happens every now and then. I guess that feel is the thing that makes the score its own score. But, I don't know exactly what that is. So, it's hard for me to answer that question."

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Danny Elfman
"It's hard to get a film, you know, you need a very special film to be able to get that experimental. But, I would love to see that happen. I would love the opportunity to be more experimental than I am."

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Danny Elfman
"It's just hard. I wish the studios felt there was more value in these themes and these pieces of material - that they're worth protecting more. Because then it just wouldn't happen. If the studios cared, the stuff would be stopped in a second."

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Danny Elfman
"You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it's ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score that happened a year or two earlier."

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Danny Elfman
"In some types of music I'm working out all the chords one bar at a time - the whole structure, because it's about that. And there are other pieces which are really about - okay, the melody is going to start here and play through to here."

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Danny Elfman
"I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music."

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Danny Elfman
"I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would never be doing that again. It's just not me. I really am happy as a part-time film composer, not a full-time film composer."

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Danny Elfman
"I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony."

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Danny Elfman
"The beauty of a main title is that you establish your main theme and maybe a bit of your secondary theme. You plant the seed that you're going to go water later in the score. And so, having that removed just made it so much more difficult."

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