Carter Burwell Quotes

Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.

Carter Burwell

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• Unique
• Voice
• Sound
• Musical
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• Instrumentation

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  • Film
  • Unique
  • Voice