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A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.
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With a lot of action scores, you're competing with a lot of noise. Say there's a big explosion: the music would conventionally have a lot of Hollywood-style percussion or brass, because that's the only thing that will cut through.
Steven Price
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Fear is one of those really primal emotions which you don't want to have incredibly exciting modulations and complex harmonies and all that kind of stuff.
Steven Price -
I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never know... the next idea you have might be the one.
Steven Price -
Every one of us has a response of some kind to music, so I don't think it's fair to ever judge what is proper and what's not.
Steven Price -
I like taking my leads from what I see rather than trying to impose. I like that way of looking at things and seeing what's on screen and seeing how I can draw music out of it almost.
Steven Price -
The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly influence the entire meaning of a scene in so many ways was like a door opening to this amazing new world for me.
Steven Price -
For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfection of some Renaissance polyphony, but equally I can feel emotion in the expectant hum of a big old guitar amp just before the strings are hit.
Steven Price
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The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather than the music.
Steven Price -
My house was full of music. My main memories are of the record player at home: it was all Beatles and Rolling Stones, and we danced around the living room; that started me off on instruments, and I've done nothing else ever since.
Steven Price