Geoff Zanelli famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Each culture might lend its own dialect, but above all that is the language of music itself, and it doesn't care about politics or boundaries.
-- Geoff Zanelli

#Culture #Dialect #Care
When I was a young child my folks would ask me why I was rocking back and forth and I'd answer "cause of the music in my head!"
-- Geoff Zanelli

#Children #Answers #Causes
For as long as I can remember, I've been passionate about music. I can't recall a time when I didn't have music playing in my head.
-- Geoff Zanelli

#Long #Passionate #Remember
It was a natural thing for me to go become a musician, and then to start writing music. I don't even really remember making a decision to go into music, it was just there for me, always. If I weren't making a living at it, I'd still be writing music.
-- Geoff Zanelli

#Writing #Decision #Musician
One of the earliest memories I have of feeling the power of film music was watching Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. That was a really clear epiphany for me, when I realized that each film has its own music, and that there was someone out there who wrote this very specific music for just this one film.
-- Geoff Zanelli

#Memories #Feelings #Chocolate
I prefer live musicians whenever possible. And I tailor the ensemble to what is appropriate for the film and the score I'm writing.
-- Geoff Zanelli

#Writing #Musician #Ensemble
I'm also always thinking about the score as a recording, as opposed to a performance that can be recreated in a live environment. Some of what I write could of course be played in a concert hall, but for the needs of a film I don't consider that.
-- Geoff Zanelli

#Writing #Thinking #Needs
In a recording, your ear believes and accepts the trumpets as part of the ensemble, but you can't do that in a concert hall.
-- Geoff Zanelli

#Believe #Ensemble #Ears
When I'm writing a score, I'm constantly looking for ways to improve on it, even when I think it's working well. I don't give up on things, and am always trying to make incremental improvements, which means I never finish writing a score early!
-- Geoff Zanelli

#Giving Up #Don't Give Up #Writing

The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.
I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American.
I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.
One thing my wife says is bad about me is that I still care too much.
No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.
The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
Public property has the same standing with me as that of an orphan; if it is much, it must be conserved, and if it is little, it must be used with care.
I have no connection with Hollywood. I'm not interested. I don't care.

Geoff Zanelli famous quotes

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