Jerry Goldsmith famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I think that the great part of creativity is overcoming fear. Fear is a given. When you sit down and have to begin something, don't be afraid to be filled with fear, because it goes with the turf.
-- Jerry Goldsmith

#Creativity #Thinking #Overcoming
I like the variety. But basically my choice of films is a small intimate film. Quiet film, no action, just people in relationships. That's what I like the most.
-- Jerry Goldsmith

#People #Choices #Action
I've been using the Mac solely for years, and got very comfortable with it.
-- Jerry Goldsmith

#Years #Macs
My wife has them all in a vault... a copy of every album.
-- Jerry Goldsmith

#Wife #Albums #Vaults
If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.
-- Jerry Goldsmith

#Doubt
The fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can be as good as the composer is gifted.
-- Jerry Goldsmith

#Class #Film Music #Able
You read reviews by top reviewers of films that not only had remarkably interesting scores, but films whose effectiveness was absolutely enhanced, and frequently created by the music, yet the reviewers seem unaware that their emotions and their nervous reactions to the films have been affected by the scoring. This is a serious flaw. Any film reviewer owes it to himself, and the public, to take every element of the film into account
-- Jerry Goldsmith

#Effectiveness #Interesting #Elements
Originally I was supposed to do Grand Prix, but I was under contract to 20th Century Fox at that time and Alex North was supposed to do Sand Pebbles, but he got sick, so Fox preempted me out of Grand Prix, and to my good fortune, I got to do Sand Pebbles. It was my first time working with Robert Wise and it was a great experience.
-- Jerry Goldsmith

#Wise #Sick #Alex
Jerry Goldsmith is an artist who meets all the demands upon the composer in films. He communicates, integrates, subordinates, supports, and designs with discipline.
-- Jerry Goldsmith

#Artist #Discipline #Design
Sounds mean nothing without music.
-- Jerry Goldsmith

#Mean #Sound #Without Music

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