Steven Price Quotes & Sayings

“For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfection of some Renaissance polyphony, but equally I can feel emotion in the expectant hum of a big old guitar amp just before the strings are hit.”

“With a lot of action scores, you're competing with a lot of noise. Say there's a big explosion: the music would conventionally have a lot of Hollywood-style percussion or brass, because that's the only thing that will cut through.”

“I like expansive stuff that has a lot of space in it, like some of the early Pink Floyd albums.”

“The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly influence the entire meaning of a scene in so many ways was like a door opening to this amazing new world for me.”

“Fear is one of those really primal emotions which you don't want to have incredibly exciting modulations and complex harmonies and all that kind of stuff.”

“It's true, most of my days are spent alone in a dark room! I don't really want anyone to see me trying and failing to nail the 40th take of a simple piano cue.”

“A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.”

“Every one of us has a response of some kind to music, so I don't think it's fair to ever judge what is proper and what's not.”

“I worry about technical details - did I mix the cello half a decibel too high? Things like that.”

“In the mid-2000s, I kind of accidentally became a music editor.”