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🇺🇸Danny Elfman

Entertainment

b. 1953

"You'll never get me into a tux. Not until I'm dead and I have no choice because that's what the undertaker put me in."

"Eternity is very long, especially towards the end."

"If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there"

"The fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can be as good as the composer is gifted."

"The Art of Paul McCartney - Exhibition 2002"

"Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul."

"For me, that term "pop" is like a candy bar. You buy it because you like it, you eat it, and then you throw it away. It has no long-term meaning or value."

"The way they're treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell."

"People think I hate sex. I don’t. I just don’t like things that stop you seeing the television properly."

"Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today is the only way to really land musically dramatic work."

"The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know."

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🇬🇧Richard Rodney Bennett

"One day, it will happen | One day, one day | It will all make sense."

"Rahman is a genius and has made the world sit up and take notice of Indian talent with his success. He has put the Indian film industry on the world map."

"Feminism should be a fight for fairness. Instead the fight is only to control outcome. And when feminists don’t like outcome, they assume something’s unfair. Like fools. Most of the left is the same way."

🇺🇸Paul Williams (songwriter)

Music

1940–2013

"Evergreen : an Interview with Paul Williams" by Jim Bennet"

"Music is a Place to take Refuge. It's a Sanctuary from Mediocrity and Boredom. It's Innocent and it's a Place you can loose yourself in Thoughts, Memories and Intricacies."

"I actually don't like playing the piano or conducting the orchestra.There is always an exchange of energies,which is not even.It's one against 80."

"It is not governed by the senseless world of current style that pervades and pollutes popular music, nor is it part of an established hierarchy, so that it is cloistered and protected."

"I’m single and my entire youth was spent enjoying time with friends, but these times I’m trying to be more responsible and take more care and use my energy in cinema. It makes me happier."

"It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off."

"Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again."

"It's a hurtful place, the world, in and of itself. We don't need to add to it. And we're in a place now where we all need one another, and it's going to get rougher."

"On concerts: "Concerts are nonsense. They create many problems: money, interests – it is hardly spontaneous. I want to feel the same pleasure that my audience experiences, otherwise it’s not honest"

"We have to keep everybody happy. This is a house full of big egos."

"So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories."

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