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I like challenges and I definitely would like to be more of a chameleon.
Cliff Martinez
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Cliff Martinez
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: February 2
Composer
Drummer
Film Score Composer
New York City
New York
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I think there is quite a continuity over my 25 years of doing music, and I'm always trying to break away from it.
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It's very important that you never depend on money to fulfill your creative vision. If you do that, you're doomed to fail.
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I don't want to be typecast as the 'ambient guy' or someone who only does electronic scores. I think most of the work that comes my way is because people feel they know me musically.
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Censorship has kind of disappeared in a way because everything is accessible online.
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I've never tried to work chronologically. I don't think I have the discipline to do that.
Cliff Martinez
For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can't do much with the script. I've tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I've found it turns out to be a waste of time.
Cliff Martinez
Composing demands a degree of isolation.
Cliff Martinez
I was in the Chilli Peppers at the time and I asked myself, would I be able to wear a sock on my genitals at the age of forty and they proved me wrong because I guess they're still doing it.
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The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn.
Cliff Martinez
I work at home but average 15,000 to 18,000 miles per year on my Honda.
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I guess I'd like to have my cake and eat it, too. I want to be known for having a recognizable style. I believe having your own personal identity is what makes you competitive. On the other hand, I would like to be versatile and be challenged to go in new directions.
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There's nothing worse than a director that keeps changing their mind. Because, unlike the directors I work with, I'm not decisive at all.
Cliff Martinez
Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.
Cliff Martinez
I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.
Cliff Martinez
Singer/songwriters spend two or three years making an album, and then it goes up for sale and everybody pirates it and you don't make any money. Whereas, writing a film score you still get presented with a paycheck.
Cliff Martinez
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
Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services.
Cliff Martinez
If you want to survive in the film industry, it's not about fighting for your visions because that's a given. It's thinking about how much is your vision going to cost, and then, what are the consequences, because you may have $100 million, but the reality is that $100 million needs to make $500 million to be a success.
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