Maurice Jarre quotes

Maurice Jarre was a French composer best known for his memorable film scores. His music for movies such as "Lawrence of Arabia," "Doctor Zhivago," and "A Passage to India" earned him international acclaim and several Academy Awards. He was highly influential in shaping the sound of 20th-century cinema. Here are 11 of his quotes:

The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them. (Maurice Jarre)

In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely.

Maurice Jarre

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

Maurice Jarre

Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece.

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A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.

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One could say my life itself has been one long soundtrack. Music was my life, music brought me to life, and music is how I will be remembered long after I leave this life. When I die there will be a final waltz playing in my head that only I can hear.

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With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.

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Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.

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My parents did not have any interest in music.

Maurice Jarre

When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.

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For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird. (Maurice Jarre)

Maurice Jarre

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Occupation: French Composer
Born: September 13, 1924
Died: March 28, 2009
Quotes count: 11
Wikipedia: Maurice Jarre

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