Ennio Quotes & Sayings

You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation. — Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone is royalty. He doesn't really do this a lot and Quentin brought him back [in Hateful Eight]. Quentin [Tarantino] basically went back and made his The Good, The Bad and The Ugly-kind of film, the ultimate epic spaghetti western, and then you've got mister spaghetti western himself scoring your movie. It's gonna be hard to not vote for him in a landslide. Probably the easiest win of the night. — Bun B.

A dark night, lightened up by thousands of glowing fireflies... It's magical... — Ama H. Vanniarachchy

Fascists divide in two categories: the fascists and the anti-fascists — Ennio Flaiano

Popularity doesn't bother me. It attests to the affection and comprehension of the public. The important thing is to retain the pioneer spirit. I profoundly love the profession, and I work on each film as if it were the first - and the last. Giving the best of myself. Many of the 'greats' ask their arranger to write their scores for them. Me, I write all alone, from the first note to the last. All. — Ennio Morricone

The late 90s were crazy science-fictional if you were inside the superheated steam bubble of the dot-com 1.0 industry. — Charles Stross

You know, until I caught a reference in an ancient manuscript, I thought cows were about the size of a chicken." Chickens and fish being the only animal life aboard, I'd thought so too until this moment. "You mean they're not?" He shook his head, and his hands sketched improbable dimensions. Now Ennio was frowning. "So . . . The rhymes were altered. I wonder why? — Les Johnson

You know what I know? I know that whenever someone tells you they are doing 'what's best for you', you're screwed. Those are not words you want to hear. It's right up there with 'it's not you it's me'. — Caroline Hanson

I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I used animal sounds - as you say, the coyote sound - so the sound of the animal became the main theme of the movie. — Ennio Morricone

In my opinion, one of the biggest drawbacks about Sergio Leone films are the scores composed by Ennio Morricone. If [Leone] were as talented as I am, he would have made mixtapes for his movies instead of letting some schmuck write the soundtracks for him. But then if he were as talented as I am, he'd be Zach Braff. And have his own Grammy. — Zach Braff

It had a very good arrangement by Herbie Hancock, but it used existing pieces. — Ennio Morricone

you speak of true honor, it is to be born of God; if of true valor, it is to fight the good fight of faith; if of true delight, it is to have joy in the Holy Spirit. Oh, then, espouse godliness! Here reality is to be had. Of other things we may say, "They comfort in vain!" (Zech. 10:2) — Thomas Watson

Practice. Learn and then unlearn - that's the trick in finding your own style of playing. You can't merely emulate, you have to innovate, or at the very least create your own path into the process. — Carrie Brownstein

The more he gave away, the more delighted he became. — Marcus Pfister

Mediobanca is undervalued but less undervalued than other banks. — Ennio Doris

I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds. — Ennio Morricone

One day fascism will be treated with psychoanalysis. — Ennio Flaiano

The 2012 payout will be the lowest in our history: well below 50 percent. — Ennio Doris

There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar. — Ennio Morricone

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the movie industry. — Ennio Morricone

There are two kinds of fascists: fascists and anti-fascists. — Ennio Flaiano

The term 'race' has deliberately been placed within inverted commas in order to stress that it is not a scientific term. Whereas it was for some time fashionable to divide humanity into four main races, and racial labels are still used to classify people in some countries (such as the USA), modern genetics tends not to speak of races. There are two principal reasons for this. First, there has always been so much interbreeding between human populations that it would be meaningless to talk of fixed boundaries between races. Second, the distribution of hereditary physical traits does not follow clear boundaries (Cavalli-Sforza et al., 1994). In other — Thomas Hylland Eriksen

We live in a modern world, and in contemporary music the central fact is contamination. Not the contamination of disease but the contamination of musical styles. If you find this in me, that is good. — Ennio Morricone

Arizona Senator John McCain announced that he plans on running for a sixth term because he is concerned about the nation's security. He plans to help just like any other 80-year-old: by sitting on his porch with a police scanner. — Jimmy Fallon

Music is an experience, not a science. — Ennio Morricone

Stupidity has made enormous progress. It's a sun so shining that we can no longer look at it directly. Thanks to communication media, it's no longer the same, it's nourished by other myths, it sells extremely well, it has ridiculed good sense and it's spreading its terrifying power. — Ennio Flaiano

The church is to help its members mature in Christ's calling — Sunday Adelaja

I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy. — Ennio Morricone