Michael Giacchino Quotes

I started watching 'Star Trek' as a kid.

I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.

The music that was popular in your youth seems to be the music you recall most vividly - and most nostalgically - for the rest of your life. But so is the music that was popular in your parents' youth.

My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up.

Pops, he was a singer's singer. I loved to hear my father sing. He just was so laid-back and cool. I always wished I could sing like Pops.

Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him.

When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.

None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives.

As I kid I watched 'Star Trek' and 'Battlestar Galactica.'

I always say that 'Star Wars' had a huge effect on me, too, but what 'Star Wars' did for some people, 'Superman' did for me.

It's crazy because, you know, my parents always want me to watch old films to make me realize how amazing some of the older actors are. And I was obsessed as soon as I watched 'Stand by Me.'

Shostakovich was one of the great symphonists of all time, and maybe the last great symphonist.

I watched the German version of 'Baron Munchasen' and Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' at a young age. 'Star Wars' was also a huge thing when I was a kid.

I love me some Mariah Carey. I grew up on that because of my mother.

I obsessively listened to all of James Lapine's shows as a child growing up in Cleveland and had every cast recording and every VHS tape of 'Into the Woods' and everything that James had done that I could get my hands on.

'Uprising' was one of the first three or four albums I ever bought in 1980 when I was 13, and that had a strong impact on me.

I think he [composer Joe Raposo] was the first man who kissed me on the cheek.

When I was young, I used to need other people's albums and I got very involved with their music and it meant a lot to me.

Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.

Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder.

Elizabeth Lutyens was the first professional composer that I ever knew. I sent someextremely infantile pieces that I I'd written and got marvellous encouragement andinterest from her... she's certainly the English composer who's influenced me themost.

It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.

I'd come home from school alone with those teenage blues and I'd put on Frank Sinatra's It was a very good year. Here was this mature man singing about the cycle of his life, and as a kid I felt the emotions of it already. It has since been a touchstone for me whenever I want to experiment musically.

Back in the days when I was a teenager, Before I had status and before I had a pager, You could find The Abstract listening to hip-hop, My pops used to say, it reminded him of be-bop, I said, well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles, The way that Bobby Brown is just ampin' like Michael, It's all expected, things are for the lookin', If you got the money, Quest is for the bookin'...

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.