Soundtracks Quotes

Usually, when I do a soundtrack, the music from the movie doesn't have anything to do with me personally. It's music to enhance to the film. My own stuff is more introspective and about what's on going in my head. ~ Stanley Clarke

I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home. ~ Quentin Tarantino

I'd love to sign a contract for the soundtracks to every Wes Anderson movie, you know what I'm saying? Things like that, I have no spots on my conscience about. ~ Doseone

Walking through a crowd, the village is aglow. Kaleidoscope of loud heartbeats, under coats. Everybody here wanted something more. Searching for a sound we hadn't heard before. And it said, 'Welcome to New York,' It's been waiting for you. It's a new soundtrack, I could dance to this beat forevermore. The lights are so bright, but they never blind me. ~ Taylor Swift

I like film soundtracks. I like the soundtracks better than the movies. ~ Madonna Ciccone

Music is one of those things that becomes a soundtrack to our lives. ~ Nathan East

Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy. ~ Margaret Heffernan

We [Elbow] have had some luck with media syncs in film and on TV. We'd love to do a soundtrack with a really cool director. ~ Guy Garvey

believe that this way of living, this focus on the present, the daily, the tangible, this intense concentration not on the news headlines but on the flowers growing in your own garden, the children growing in your own home, this way of living has the potential to open up the heavens, to yield a glittering handful of diamonds where a second ago there was coal. This way of living and noticing and building and crafting can crack through the movie sets and soundtracks that keep us waiting for our own life stories to begin, and set us free to observe the lives we have been creating all along without ever realizing it.
I don't want to wait anymore. I choose to believe that there is nothing more sacred or profound than this day. I choose to believe that there may be a thousand big moments embedded in this day, waiting to be discovered like tiny shards of gold. The big moments are the daily, tiny moments of courage and forgiveness and hope that we grab on to and extend to one another. That's the drama of life, swirling all around us, and generally I don't even see it, because I'm too busy waiting to become whatever it is I think I am about to become. The big moments are in every hour, every conversation, every meal, every meeting.
The Heisman Trophy winner knows this. He knows that his big moment was not when they gave him the trophy. It was the thousand times he went to practice instead of going back to bed. It was the miles run on rainy days, the healthy meals when a burg ~ Shauna Niequist

My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of 'The Color Purple.' It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same. ~ Tracy Morgan

Have you ever listened to a song from a long time ago; from your past; a song that was filled with so many memories tied to it, that you felt it so deeply- that it made you cry?

And did you listen to it again, intentionally, for a second time? So you could travel back in time through that song; back when everything seemed so much simpler, basic, carefree?

Those are the songs that are the soundtracks of our lives… the ones that bring back childhood memories, deep feelings, snapshots of our lives (or short videos), best friends, first loves, first heartbreaks… births, deaths.

Our lives are like the record albums that we used to play just a few years ago; just yesterday. We played some of the songs over and over again- to the point of which we can sing along with every word as we play it.

Other songs seem somewhat unfamiliar, as we rarely go back to listen to them; we skip over them or we barely listen to the start of it before we turn off the record player. But just like on a record album and just like in our memories, you can't cut a song out off an album... just like you can't cut out a memory.

The songs and memories remain there, side by side; the good ones, the bad ones, the ones that thrill us and the ones that hurt.

Those are the songs that our lives are composed of. Those are the songs that we chase back, back into our our own memories in our private and personal musical time machines. ~ Jose N Harris

I do enjoy my solo time ... I want to stay home and do soundtracks and watch TV in my underwear with a keyboard on my lap and just be a couch potato. ~ Ariel Pink

Music is the soundtrack of your life. ~ Dick Clark

I hate people walking down the street listening to the soundtrack of their lives which responds to them but not their setting. I hate the overspill of sound which metro and subway riders are oblivious to because they notice no one and nothing around them. ~ Margaret Heffernan

If I wrote something just for a musician and not for a soundtrack I would have no inspiration from scenes or from the story. It's like if a painter sees a beautiful scene and he paints it. If he's in his home it's not the same. ~ Claudio Simonetti

After working as a producer on many pop, electronica and some soundtrack, incidental music projects, I became more focused on film and TV scores. ~ Paul Wardingham

I work with companies like Audiostiles to put together mixes for my restaurants. I even created a soundtrack for my television show. ~ Jose Andres

Leave a movie audience inspired, and they will want to ingrain that movie into their lives with the toys, branded food products, soundtracks, and clothing they buy. ~ Shawn Amos

Music is the soundtrack to life. It plays the melody of our being. ~ Michael Jackson

What I liked about doing a soundtrack is that it's almost the opposite of any kind of normal recording that a band does, because it's very much a restricted, narrow ... And I kind of like that, I find it exciting to work within these things. ~ Tim Gane

One of the most interesting things, at least for me, are the soundtracks for 'The Social Network' and 'Drive.' Basically, it's what I did in 'American Gigolo.' I could have done the music for those movies blindfolded. And one of them won an Oscar, and the other is this massive soundtrack. ~ Giorgio Moroder

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks. ~ Carter Burwell

I wanted to make the soundtrack of people's lives. ~ Big Sean

I love doing film soundtracks and working with directors on how they want the scene to be portrayed on audio as opposed to visual. I like the collaborative effort of working with people. ~ Al Jourgensen

I am definitely interested in soundtracks that one might associate with fantasy or sci-fi - they tend to be rich with musical ideas. ~ John Maus

Painting doesn't have a function, not in the way that music or film does ... I mean, you can dance to music. Music can be used for a soundtrack, so it has a function in that sense, beyond itself. But painting doesn't ... But I do believe that painting has a purpose. ~ Peter Doig

The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat. ~ Russell Simmons

Grunge was so self-consciously lowbrow and nonaspirational that it seemed, at first, impervious to the hype and glamour normally applied swiftly to any emerging trend. But sure enough, grunge anthems found their way onto the soundtracks of television commercials, and Dodge Neons were hawked by kids in flannel shirts saying, 'Whatever.' ~ Douglas Rushkoff

I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders. ~ Chrissie Hynde

There was a time - and I used to get made fun of a lot - that all I collected was soundtracks. ~ Jason Marsden

I'm pursuing soundtrack work in the southern California area and down the line I plan to make a moody, intense acoustic album. Not all acoustic, but an acoustic - oriented guitar record that I've already written most of the material for. ~ Ronnie Montrose

Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks. ~ Martin Gore

I keep my iPod on shuffle most of the time, but I'm most into Cirque du Soleil soundtracks. ~ Steve-O

In major movies these days, the fine details of music, instrumentation and sound design are lost. This is a shame, and it is one of the various reasons that make me not want to be part of the entertainment business. Although I have done it in the past, finally I know that I'm not here to create industry products. Music is more than images, it's more than language ... it's the medium that's capable of communicating the answers to the Big Questions. ~ Julius Dobos

I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater. ~ Joseph Gatt

In every language you can imagine, I've had people say 'Appetite For Destruction' is the soundtrack to their lives. I don't think you could say something nicer to an entertainer or performer - can't get more respectful. ~ Steven Adler

Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive. ~ Rob Sheffield

This sounds geeky, but when I run, I like to listen to musicals like 'Les Miserables.' The soundtracks are 75 minutes or longer, and I keep going until the story ends, so it feels like a good workout. ~ Lindy Booth

I wanted to make an unashamed pop record. I became obsessed with Disney soundtracks from the '50s, so I decided to make my own. ~ Mika.

I think I've done more recording in the past 10 years than most people, but it's all been directed toward film composing and soundtracks. Just the same, it's been great. ~ Stanley Clarke

I do feel like my music, in some weird way, is probably better suited for cinema than for anything else - I can't really explain, other than I think that music has been mostly inspired often by soundtracks. ~ Zach Condon

I have a huge music library and deliberately choose the piece of music to match the piece I'm writing. So, every book I write has its own "soundtrack." ~ Michael Scott

I've featured in some soundtracks in the past, and I would love to do more. I love great soundtracks to movies. Quentin Tarantino always picks amazing soundtracks, so I would like to do something for him or write a song for him. ~ Eliza Doolittle

Music from my iPod was setting my life to a dramatic soundtrack that only I could hear. ~ Catherine Sanderson

World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go? ~ L.A. Reid

The only thing you can ever ask for is that, like what I was saying with memories, that somehow my music can fit into somebody's memory. If it can be the soundtrack to somebody's happy days then that would be amazing. ~ George Ezra

For me, Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' defines New York. Both New York and Manhattan Island should be in black in white! I always hear the soundtrack of Gershwin in my head every time I go over the Queensboro Bridge, or come in from JFK because of it! ~ Brian Cox

Wes Craven's 'Shocker' is one of my favorite soundtracks. I don't know where that movie stands in the critical eye of cinema, but it was a really fun movie because of all the bands that were part of it. ~ Adam Green

Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us. ~ Louise Brown

Music is the soundtrack to my life. ~ James Hetfield

Maybe you are a dancer
moving to the sound of your own future;
or a musician
banging strumming bowing plucking
blowing into,
creating soundtracks
for dream trains chugging along
through thick night;
or a painter
spilling and splattering confessions
across the face of stretched canvas;
or an actor
praying at the altar
of your alter ego;
or a photographer,
finger on the button
like a quick-draw cowboy,
shooting
not to kill anyone
but to preserve forever;
or maybe even
a writer
for some strange reason,
writing expert books,
pages of good intention
and rah-rah and fantasy
and sometimes truth,
or maybe even letters to people
you don't know but
do know you love. ~ Jason Reynolds

Music is the soundtrack of our lives. ~ Dick Clark

I never use soundtrack; it is always part of the story. ~ Michael Haneke

As important as color is to a painting, or wings to a bird. Music injects vibrancy to film and makes it soar! ~ Gerard De Marigny

I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom to Queen soundtracks. ~ Carmen Ejogo

The way that I write songs is pretty simple. I hear music first, much like you would when you're scoring a film. I usually hear a soundtrack in my head, and after I get that soundtrack, it tells me what it's about, what it feels like, what the emotion is, and the words come after. ~ Lauren Hart

You are the true meaning of beauty Scarlett Johansson , your beauty inspired me to create the best soundtracks ever . love and noble respect to your magical Soul ~ Sami Abouzid

Maybe what life needs is a good soundtrack, especially during the long stretches when nothing interesting is being said. A soundtrack might dignify things a bit, ennobling us with the proper drama and tension and pathos. ~ Jonathan Hull

James Franco, acting, teaching, directing, writing, producing, photography, soundtracks, editing - is there anything you can do? ~ Natasha Leggero

If Manliness had a soundtrack, the score would be metal. ~ Maddox

Turn down the porn soundtrack! Trying to concentrate here!-Shane ~ Rachel Caine

I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film. ~ Quentin Tarantino

It'd be cool to chipmunk-ize 'The Virgin Suicides' soundtrack. All this ethereal French music, I think that would be unique to listen to. ~ Matthew Gray Gubler

I think it started with both the shows and the box set from finishing White Material. I think we were also pretty desperate to get it released. We felt pretty proud of it, and it just escalated from there. We were thinking about playing some live shows, doing the soundtracks live. It was just trying to shine a little light on this 15 years of work we've done. ~ Stuart A. Staples

All the major social movements of the 20th century had great soundtracks - We need that. The left needs better propaganda, because we don't have the Koch brothers. It takes a different kind of capital to fight that stuff. ~ DJ Spooky

I know a lot of actors who live with kind of a soundtrack in their lives, even to go to the market. I'm not that kind of actor. I don't listen to songs. I actually like quiet. ~ John Cena

I like soundtracks and I like film. ~ Adam Jones

Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films. ~ Terry Pratchett

My favorite films, I would put my answering machine up to the television set and hit record. I'd tape my favorite movies and then I could go back and listen to them again. I only had the soundtrack, I didn't have the visuals. But I think it made me really pay attention to the soundtracks. ~ Mark Mothersbaugh

But, yes, now I wouldn't do some of those soundtracks the way I did them. ~ Maurice Jarre

I think if you write music for soundtracks then sometimes you do something that you could never do if the film did not exist. ~ Claudio Simonetti

We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the soundtrack of our own impending death. ~ Courtney Summers

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration. ~ Colin Greenwood

In some ways the nudity really makes people feel more uncomfortable because it's not nudity that is just making bodies look like sexy little pieces of body parts stuck together. It's much more blunt and real and there is not a sexy soundtrack behind it all. ~ Marielle Heller

Every life has a soundtrack. ~ Jodi Picoult

One of the things I loved about the musical was that you listened to the soundtrack and it told you the story. ~ Tim Burton

I don't think 'Sugar Man' is a music doc any more than 'The Social Network' is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever. ~ Malik Bendjelloul

Without a soundtrack, human interaction is meaningless. ~ Chuck Klosterman