In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss

In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film.

Motivational Danny Elfman

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.

Motivational Danny Elfman

I like creating these rhythmic patterns. These interlocking rhythmic things are really fun.

Motivational Danny Elfman

Americanism is not a matter of skin or color.

Motivational Daniel Inouye

With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

Motivational Daniel Ek

People just want to have access to all of the world's music.

Motivational Daniel Ek

At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.

Motivational Daniel Ek

I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.

Motivational Daniel Ek

Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.

Motivational Daniel Ek

I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.

Motivational Daniel Ek

I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound.

Motivational Danny Elfman

It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants to do.

Motivational Danny Elfman

I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.

Motivational Danny Elfman

So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses.

Motivational Danny Elfman

In some types of music I'm working out all the chords one bar at a time - the whole structure, because it's about that. And there are other pieces which are really about - okay, the melody is going to start here and play through to here.

Motivational Danny Elfman

I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference.

Motivational Danny Elfman