Ennio Morricone citations

“I always think that when something is currently very trendy, it's already very old.”

“Everyone has to die. I'm not particularly scared about it. What really frightens me is that if I go before my wife, I will leave her alone, and vice versa. The ideal would be to die together.”

“I don't know the names of any pop musicians. Pop music is standardised; it's made to please the largest audience possible. I also compose to please a large audience, but when you listen to my music, you understand that I have studied and applied the whole history of composition.”

“My more risky or avant garde music is not that well known to a wider audience, but I wish it was.”

“Music needs room to breathe.”

“I like composing music, but I love being with my family.”

“I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.”

“You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation.”

“I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.”

“It could have been extremely boring to write musical scores for only westerns of horror films. It was really exciting for me to work in all these various genres.”

“There are some directors who actually fear the possible success of music. They fear that the audience or the critics will think the film has worked because there was a very good music score.”

“They're all my children... every score I've done.”

“I often use the same harmonies as pop music because the complexity of what I do is elsewhere.”