William P. Perry famous quotes

Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.
-- William P. Perry

#Lonely #Occupation #Film

Inspiration can show up almost any time, though I have yet to see anyone scratching out melodic ideas on a restaurant napkin as legend would have us believe. I think inspiration comes from concentration, and early on I learned about Mark Twain's habit of leaving for his study after breakfast and not reappearing until the end of the day, ready to read to his family what he had just written. That set a good example for me, although I didn't copy his habit of taking twelve cigars along.
-- William P. Perry

#Believe #Inspiration #Thinking

A scene is never completed, but simply abandoned when the search for perfection is no longer producing positive results.
-- William P. Perry

#Perfection #Scene #Abandoned

I like having deadlines... a film release date or a concert premiere date. It channels one's energy into doing often remarkable work that oceans of extra time would probably not improve upon.
-- William P. Perry

#Ocean #Release Date #Extra Time

There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.

The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed ones who possess the Kingdom are they who have repudiated every external thing and have rooted from their hearts all sense of possessing. These are the 'poor in spirit.'

Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.

Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.

Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.

Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to illustrate by the assembling of significant reliques, the march of the human spirit in its quest for beauty...

man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war.

It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.

Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.

I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive.