Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired.
My passion for music has always inspired my designs.
In the Air Force, I had an old Wilcox Gay recorder, and I used to hear guitar runs on that recorder going (vocalizing) like the chords on "I Walk The Line." And I always wanted to write a love song using that theme, that tune.
I believe that tracks speak to me. Some tracks make me write certain music or make me feel sad or inspire me to write a sad love song. Each track has its feeling to me.
Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.
When I'm writing instrumental music, I try to find musical and non-musical inspirations.
Music is everywhere and in everything! I draw my inspiration from the day to day activities of my life!
My music has always been strong in melodic content.
My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
Music can help uncover that tone that's in the fabric of the movie. Sometimes it's very plain to see, sometimes it's not.
I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.
I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.
I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.
Music in this film is a very important part.
One of my biggest goals in writing the music for 'Fantastic Beasts' was to create memorable melodies. J.K. Rowling's world has always had a great musical legacy and I was hoping to continue that tradition.
I'll listen to a song so much that ideas start to form out of daydreaming. It's as if I'm reverse-scoring the track and building visuals around a specific beat or riff that's grabbed me.
I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.
We knew we wanted to have our own tone for the show. And then the big instrument that actually we came up with was the cello. It has a big range. It can play really low. It can play high. And it has a dark sound, and 'Game Of Thrones' is obviously - it's a dark show, and the cello became the featured instrument.
I think I have a sound or a certain feel in certain harmonies in the way I construct melodies.
Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.
Working on 'Lonely, I'm Not' - I love the material so much, and it's spring in New York, so I'm walking home whistling every day.
There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.
