Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Maurice Jarre

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Last updated on September 18, 2024.

Maurice-Alexis Jarre was a French composer and conductor. Although he composed several concert works, Jarre is best known for his film scores, particularly for his collaborations with film director David Lean. Jarre composed the scores to all of Lean's films from Lawrence of Arabia (1962) to A Passage to India (1984). He was nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning three in the Best Original Score category for Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and A Passage to India (1984), all of which were directed by Lean.

French - Composer | Born: September 13, 1924

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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.

Maurice Jarre

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

Maurice Jarre

A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.

Maurice Jarre

My parents did not have any interest in music.

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.

Maurice Jarre

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.

Maurice Jarre

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

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

But, yes, now I wouldn't do some of those soundtracks the way I did them.

Maurice Jarre

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

Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema.

Maurice Jarre

I was lucky Mozart was not eligible this year.

Maurice Jarre

Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Maurice Jarre

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