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If you fail, fail fast enough so you can regroup and do it better.

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Part of me wants to stay hidden; it's no coincidence that I write movie music. It lets me stay in the shadows, in a way, but still lets me be expressive.

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With film music, endings are often more difficult than beginnings, because a beginning is an underline, a way of exciting a moment, and then you have to find a way to dissipate that.

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It's a practical matter. If you're useful to others, you'll be hired.

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Music is such an odd thing when you think about it - behind an image until you take it away, and then you realize a movie sounds blank without it.

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'Sugarcoat the Galaxy' is inspired by color-inflected photographs of galaxies. It likens sounds to spun sugar and confection, wrapping static harmonies inside energy and pace.

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'The Starship Avalon' is perpetually mobile. The music is designed to give the impression of endless sleep and endless journey with a significant interruption that guides the story that follows. It's color and pulse followed by great size.

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The rare opportunity of writing music for a movie about the making of 'Mary Poppins' was impossible to ignore. The fact that it could provide emotional content in relief of the struggles that the Sherman brothers and Walt Disney endured was reason enough to take on the challenge.

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I had ideas. A lot were good, but in many ways, I had no idea or experience about how to carry them out.

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When you see an early edited version, you're not sure what it is. The movie is getting on its wobbly legs.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Composer

Born: October 20th, 1955

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