The fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can be as good as the composer is gifted.

If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.

My wife has them all in a vault... a copy of every album.

The fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can be as good as the composer is gifted.

You read reviews by top reviewers of films that not only had remarkably interesting scores, but films whose effectiveness was absolutely enhanced, and frequently created by the music, yet the reviewers seem unaware that their emotions and their nervous reactions to the films have been affected by the scoring. This is a serious flaw. Any film reviewer owes it to himself, and the public, to take every element of the film into account.

Jerry Goldsmith is an artist who meets all the demands upon the composer in films. He communicates, integrates, subordinates, supports, and designs with discipline.

Sounds mean nothing without music.