Morricone 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.

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

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

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

I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working. — Daniel Handler

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

When I think of Morricone, more than his using a specific instrument or a specific sound, it's his way of approaching music that sticks out. — Marco Beltrami

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

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

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

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