Clouser Quotes & Sayings

Conquering something new becomes fun, even if that thing you're conquering isn't what you'd normally do. — Charlie Clouser

I looked at the empty suitcase. On the bottom was Karl Marx. On the lid was Brodsky. And between them, my lost, precious, only life. — Sergei Dovlatov

Most people still steal music. — Steve Ballmer

That's always attractive to me, to work with music whose form is a big question mark. Even many of my favorite bands growing up, when I was just a kid learning to play drums and guitar and everything, were bands like Pink Floyd, where the arrangement, the number of bars in each section is unconventional and often lopsided, and there will be small little instrumental interludes and that sort of thing. So those odd forms, as well as dark content, are the things that I think are continuous through all the type of projects that I've been attracted to. — Charlie Clouser

If humanity is to live in the future in a socially right way, humanity must educate its children in a socially right way. — Rudolf Steiner

The only part that's ever frustrating is just the deadline. If left to my own devices, I'd work for a year on something that doesn't need to be worked on for a year because I enjoy it. — Charlie Clouser

I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated. — James Balog

Acting is constricted because you have the lines. But I improvise with it and what I learn on the set. I improvise rhythms and just changes. — Anthony Hopkins

Eh, I'll just get another computer. This will be my Disney trip computer." My parents had boxes of photos in their closets. Now we have old computers in our closets. "Hey, honey, there's our wedding computer." "There's my computer from when I was single. I guess I should destroy that one. — Jim Gaffigan

I want us to be a connected team-on and off the field. — Aaron Rodgers

So if no theory of philosophy or the sciences can avoid including or presupposing a view of the nature of reality, then no theory can avoid including or presupposing some per se divinity belief. — Roy A. Clouser

his innate curiosity was the epicenter to his creativity. — Joe Hart

I'm always on the lookout for something good about people. Often months go by. — Andy Rooney

I'm not a one-stop music shop with jazz improv in aisle 3 and country and western in aisle 4. I have a fairly focused and established kind of melody and approach, so people know what they're getting into when they go into business with me. — Charlie Clouser

It took a rare person to appreciate a good Elmer Fudd line. — Alyssa Day

Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days. — Richard Wright

The unifying thread through all these different aspects of music business is just my attraction toward working with sounds and designing new scary, evil, dark sounds. — Charlie Clouser

If Richard had lived, perhaps ... but one cannot look backwards, only forwards. What has passed has passed for ever. What is it Heraclitus says? One Cannot step in the same river twice?' ... 'More or less. I suppose a more accurate way of putting it would be You can step in the same river but the water will always be new. — Kate Atkinson

We're all ugly, Ryen. The only difference is, some hide it and some wear it. — Penelope Douglas

There's this phase in the middle of the process where there's still the potential that this will be great, but it's not a blank sheet of paper anymore, and that phase is always my favorite part and the part that I tend to want to stretch out and spend as much time in as possible. — Charlie Clouser