Quotes by Maurice Jarre

About Maurice Jarre:

Maurice-Alexis Jarre was a French composer and conductor, "one of the giants of 20th century film music" who was "among the most sought-after composers in the movie industry" and "a creator of both subtle underscoring and grand, sweeping themes, not only writing for conventional orchestras... but also experimenting with electronic sounds later in his career."
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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.

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

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I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

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

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A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.

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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.

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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.

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

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My parents did not have any interest in music.

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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.

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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 happe...

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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 plac...

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Author Bio

  • NameMaurice Jarre
  • DescriptionFrench composer
  • BornSeptember 13, 1924
  • DiedMarch 29, 2009
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionComposer; Conductor
  • WorksLara's Theme
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Original Score; Grammy Award