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I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference.

~Danny Elfman

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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.

~Danny Elfman

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I'll just start laying out the melody exactly where I want it to fall. And then I'll go back and fill it out. Whereas, in other pieces I'm really just going a couple bars at a time.

~Danny Elfman

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I'll look back and I'd be better to answer that in about three months from now. Or when the movie comes out and I see it. I don't even know what it is yet. I've still been in the middle of it.

~Danny Elfman

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I'm looking for a feel and I have to find what that feel is before I can move on from there. I'm not necessarily catching stuff in such a simple way - I don't need to. So, I'm going for something else.

~Danny Elfman

Topics: Before Catching Else Feel Find Going Looking Move Move On Necessarily Need Simple Simple Way Something Something Else Stuff Way I Can

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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.

~Danny Elfman

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In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film.

~Danny Elfman

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It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants to do.

~Danny Elfman

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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.

~Danny Elfman

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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.

~Danny Elfman

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: May 29th, 1953

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