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If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances? Charles Ives

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If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven. Charles Ives

Day Better Poet Carry Some About More Horse He Him Knows Stick Does Than May Heaven Might

People who work in horror know they are contributing to a genre that has always been loved and will always be loved - privately. It's the forbidden evil working behind the curtain. My job scoring a horror movie is like being the barker at a carnival. A good barker can get anyone to walk into the roped-off tent. Christopher Young

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When I was younger, I'd make a point of driving to the middle of nowhere and spending an evening with just me, the wind, and the moon. Your skin crawls up an octave. This is what I tap into when I'm working on horror films. I'm just afraid a time will come when I lose touch with that part of myself. Christopher Young

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As a kid, I had a Beatles poster and a Bela Lugosi as Dracula poster, so both worlds always appealed to me. Horror allows you to do things as a composer than you're able to do in no other style of movie. The music has to be aggressive. You can't tiptoe around. It has to be incredibly focused dramatically - no time for second thoughts. Christopher Young

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I don't care how inventive you are; once you introduce strings into the ensemble for a horror film, you're entering into a world where a tradition has been thoroughly established. So it's repeated use over the years is like, 'Oh God, another film with strings, another spooky movie with strings.' Christopher Young

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Usually when I am approached to do a score for a horror movie, it's to attempt a repeat performance of what I did way back on 'Hellraiser' or 'Jennifer 8' - one of those really orchestral scores. Christopher Young

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Horror films are the ones that pay the bills, and historically, they have shown that they are good investments. They helped Universal survive with that initial splash of horror films in the 1930s and '40s. And horror films kept New Line alive with the 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' series. Christopher Young

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music. Claude Debussy

Music Own Airplane Century Right

Extreme complication is contrary to art. Claude Debussy

Art Extreme Complication Contrary

Music is spiritual. The music business is not. Claudio Monteverdi

Music Spiritual Business Music Business

He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie. Cole Porter

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I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles. Cole Porter

Love Summer Paris

My background was in performing originally. Cy Coleman

Background Performing Originally

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country. Cy Coleman

Country Jazz Performed Over Clubs

I have a bunch of albums I would love to get re-released. Cy Coleman

Love Would Bunch Get Albums

We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it. Cy Coleman

First Believe Directing Weeks Over Doing December Workshop Two Two Weeks

Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing. Cy Coleman

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I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better. Cy Coleman

You Better Getting Getting Better Where Profession Lucky Keep

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good. Cy Coleman

Good Musician Put Terms Chops

We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life. David Amram

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The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us. David Amram

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