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

— Jerry Goldsmith

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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.

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Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

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