Ennio Morricone Quotes

In music, what is very important is temporality of space and length, based on the breathing space the director gives the music within the film, by separating the music from various elements of reality, like noises, dialogues... That's how you treat music properly, but it doesn't always happen this way. Music is often blamed, but it's not its fault.

Ennio Morricone

Quotes to Explore

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

Carlisle Floyd
- America
- Artist
- Talent
You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.

Xenophon
- Country
- Peace
- Fire
Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.

Gary Zukav
- Love
- Feeling
- Idea
No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.

Gary Allan
- Life
- Positive
- Negative
The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
- Life
- Time
- Real
To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.

Iain McGilchrist
- Think
- Model
- Better