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What appeals to me about an American music directorship is the involvement of the conductor with the orchestra and the community. I think that's a fantastic thing. In Europe, being principal conductor means merely that you're the person who does most of the concerts. For me, that simply isn't enough. -- Jeffrey Tate
There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music. -- Alex North
The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director. -- Phil Ramone
I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too. -- Carter Burwell
Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director. -- Tamra Davis
When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present. -- Stanley Crouch
The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself. -- Taylor Hackford
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss. -- Georg Solti
A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be. -- Steven Price
I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time. -- Zubin Mehta
I almost became a music major, but somehow I was so enthralled with the camera and becoming a director that I stuck with film school and theatrics. -- James Brolin
I've always loved music videos - I used to make my own for bands like Pearl Jam. My favorite directors are Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and Patrick Daughters. -- Akiva Schaffer
The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door. -- Richard Morris
Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited. -- Michael Apted
It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer just A Film By Stanley Kubrick including music and everything. -- Terry Southern
I take it very seriously, music. I think it's one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of paint. The right music can sometimes do five pages of scripted dialogue. -- Todd Phillips
Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to the writers work together toward the same goal, and everyone chimes in on everything. -- Trey Anastasio
When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet. -- Erich Leinsdorf
Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job. -- Tony Visconti
Well into the '40s, it wasn't uncommon for big-budget Hollywood movies to contain little or no underscoring, and many of today's directors, following the lead of Martin Scorsese in 'GoodFellas,' accompany their films with pop records, not original music. -- Terry Teachout
What worries me are these so-called radio stations with program directors who don't play all the different flavors of hip-hop. They should play the old with the new, 24/7, 365 days a year. A lot of these program directors are just jiving around and not playing all the good music for the people. -- Afrika Bambaataa
Directors love to do music, they've been doing that all along. -- Melvin Van Peebles
Saying directors don't write because they don't type is very wrong, it's like saying Dylan doesn't write music because he doesn't write notation. -- William Monahan
Some directors are comfortable with music. Some feel comfortable discussing and talking and operating in a musical language. Others don't engage so much. -- Henry Jackman
I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they're working. The songs just don't become a part of the film. They're replaced. -- Ben Folds
I like directors that give their composer a juicy role in their films. Some films have a small, minor role for music, some have a larger role. -- Cliff Martinez

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