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Type: Composer Quotes Category: American Composer Quotes Date of Birth: December 4, 1910 Date of Death: September 8, 1991 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Alex North Related Authors: Stephen Sondheim Carter Burwell Carlisle Floyd Leo Ornstein Oscar Levant George Crumb John Zorn David Amram |
Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.
Alex North Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions. Alex North Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt. Alex North I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness. Alex North I prefer to write music for family films. I like people. Alex North My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan. Alex North The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s. Alex North There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved. Alex North There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music. Alex North Today it's not culture; it's box office. Alex North When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years. Alex North |
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