Danny Elfman Quotes

Danny Elfman — American Musician born on May 29, 1953,

Daniel Robert Elfman is an American composer, singer, songwriter, and record producer. From 1976 to 1995 he was the lead singer and songwriter for the rock band Oingo Boingo... (wikipedia)

I'll just start laying out the melody exactly where I want it to fall. And then I'll go back and fill it out. Whereas, in other pieces I'm really just going a couple bars at a time.

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

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.

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

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