Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by David Newman

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American composer David Newman.

Last updated on September 18, 2024.

David Louis Newman is an American composer and conductor known particularly for his film scores. In a career spanning more than thirty years, he has composed music for nearly 100 feature films. He received an Academy Award nomination for writing the score to the 1997 film Anastasia, contributing to the Newmans being the most nominated Academy Award extended family, with a collective 92 nominations in various music categories.

American - Composer | Born: March 11, 1954

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I think John Williams, him and his team, have been incredible orchestrators. By that, I mean how he chooses which instrument plays which note.

David Newman

I actually played violin on 'E.T.' I used to be a violinist.

David Newman

The Spirit is a kind of postmodern loner hero. He comes from nowhere; he has no real relationship to anything.

David Newman

Playing in an orchestra is where I learned the most about music.

David Newman

I'm not very interested in pops concerts. I'm interested in special events.

David Newman

I'll probably always write film scores. It's the one place where a composer has almost unlimited resources at his beck and call. When music you have written works well in a film, nothing can beat it.

David Newman

We went to a very liberal Episcopalian church. It didn't take for me.

David Newman

To this day, I adore classical music, and I'm very interested in opera, which I found out later my father was also extremely fond of.

David Newman

I want to write theater pieces, opera, or some kind of amalgamation where there is singing, music and theater.

David Newman

Film music has a great history of composers and performers.

David Newman

We had a normal childhood. I played baseball, and we played violin in orchestras three times a week. I learned more from that than anything else.

David Newman

People who go to concerts hear Beethoven's symphonies hundreds of times, but 'Star Trek' is recorded, so it's not played all the time.

David Newman

There's a thing about film composing and conducting in my family.

David Newman

I think there has never ever been a career like John Williams'. That whole 'Jaws' phenomenon - there's nobody that knows how to use music like Spielberg, and John is just the perfect analog to Spielberg.

David Newman

I had no interest or intention of ever writing music. I was a professional violinist in my 20s. I was obsessed with conducting, and I was conducting as much as I could, and I was studying as much as I could. I went to USC; I got an undergrad degree in violin and a master's degree in conducting.

David Newman

Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by David Newman

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