Steven Price
Steven Price
hate people score
A lot of composers I know hate temp scores because people get attached to them.
college people film-music
I studied music all the way through college, but as soon as I graduated from university, I got straight into London and got straight into film music. So really my experiences have been being around the orchestras in London and being around the people who work in film music.
people style different
I've been able to have broad kind of education and all sorts of different music and a lot of kind of films and also different styles and genres. And so, all of these things have influenced me along the way and I take a little bit from everything I do. I've been lucky to work with a lot of great people and learn from them.
ideas people trying
I'm not very good at sounding like other people. When you're going through your 20's and trying to get a break and that kind of thing, and you're trying to do something that sounds like film music, your idea of what it would be, it never really worked out for me and it's only really when I learned to trust the fact that I could only really sound like me.
people trying stuff
I find that I love so much stuff and respect so many people who work in this industry and music in general. I've kind of learned that I've got to just stick to what I can do and try and do that really.
complex fear harmonies incredibly primal
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.
beatles danced full home house living main music player record rolling
My house was full of music. My main memories are of the record player at home: it was all Beatles and Rolling Stones, and we danced around the living room; that started me off on instruments, and I've done nothing else ever since.
films growing imagine loved might odd score sound time
When I was growing up, I loved the films where you'd start them and the score might sound really odd at first and really different, and then by the time you finish, you can't imagine it being any other way.
cut music percussion
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.
alone anyone days failing nail piano spent trying
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.
music proper response
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.
might quite trying
I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never know... the next idea you have might be the one.
along composers felt filmmakers great music rather worked
The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather than the music.
running giving-up thinking
With the great people that you work with, it's that they're never giving up and they're never thinking something's finished until they've really, really run out of time. They keep pushing in case there's a better idea around the corner.